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IN the number of NATURE for July 20, 1871, I find a paper by Ferrel, βOn the Cause of Low Barometer in the Polar Regions,β &c. The author says that the law which deflects a body to the right in the northern hemisphere and to the left in the southern is not understood by meteorologists, and that it is admitted, only when the movement is north and south.
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WCJEIKOFER, A. Cause of Low Barometric Pressure. Nature 5, 102 (1871). https://doi.org/10.1038/005102b0
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