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I FEEL somewhat disappointed not to see a flood of correspondence in your pages arising out of Dr. Neumayr's very interesting lecture on the climates of past ages. The subject is difficult and complex, and the factors of the problem are no doubt various and of different kinds. I wish to make a few remarks on some of these.
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MURPHY, J. “The Climates of Past Ages”. Nature 42, 270–271 (1890). https://doi.org/10.1038/042270d0
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