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IT is to be gathered from Mr. Barham's communication on cyclones and anti-cyclones in NATURE, vol. xviii. p. 249, that he is probably unacquainted with either Prof. Dove's partial explanation of the effect of the earth's rotation on the winds, published nearly fifty years ago, or Prof. Ferrel's more recent and comprehensive memoirs on the same subject; not to speak of Mohn and Guldberg's elaborate discussion of the mechanics of cyclonic and anticyclonic movements in their “Études sur les Mouvements de l'Atmosphère,” published within the last two years.
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BLANFORD, H. The Genesis of Cyclones. Nature 18, 328–329 (1878). https://doi.org/10.1038/018328b0
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