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IN NATURE of August 17, 1871, Mr. J. J. Murphy calls attention to a paper by Mr. Meldrum on the origin of storms in the Bay of Bengal, &c. This paper advocates the theory of their origin βin the meeting of the trade-winds in the northern and southern hemispheres, at some distance north or south of the equator.β
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WHITMEE, S. Origin of Cyclones. Nature 6, 121 (1872). https://doi.org/10.1038/006121a0
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