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Ocean Currents

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TWO papers which Mr. Croll has recently published “On the Physical Cause of Ocean Currents”(Philosophical Magazine for Feb. and Mar. 1874), bring the main question at issue between him and myself into very distinct view; and as the results of the Challenger Temperature-survey of the Atlantic, lately made public by the Admiralty, afford (as it seems to me) important data towards the settlement of this question I shall be glad to be allowed to point out what seem to me their chief bearings upon it.

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CARPENTER, W. Ocean Currents . Nature 9, 423–424 (1874). https://doi.org/10.1038/009423c0

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