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IN reading Dr. Evans's reply to my letter in NATURE of January 25 with regard to the isothermal layer, I was specially interested in his reference to radiation of heat from orbital interplanetary matter as a probable climatic factor, because in Symon's Meteorological Magazine of February, 1911, I suggested that the recurrence year after year of warm and cold periods, first directed attention to by the late Dr. Buchan, may be attributable to modifications in a screen of cosmic matter, such, for instance, as that from which the zodiacal light and the Gegenschein are reflected.
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HEPWORTH, C. The Isothermal Layer. Nature 89, 7 (1912). https://doi.org/10.1038/089007b0
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