 | John Wells Foster, Josiah Dwight Whitney - Copper mines and mining - 1850 - 258 pages
...tension, the purity of the atmosphere or its admixture with more or less noxious gaseous exhalations, and, finally, the degree of ordinary transparency...organic development of plants, and the ripening of fuits, but also with reference to its influence on the feelings and mental condition of men.* To this... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1851 - 424 pages
...purity of the atmosphere, or its admixture with more or less noxious gaseous exhalations, and, fmally, the degree of ordinary transparency and clearness...important with respect to the increased radiation from the Earth, the organic development of plants, and the ripening of fruits, but also with reference... | |
 | 1851 - 520 pages
...habitual transparency of the air, and serenity of the sky, which has an important influence, not only on the organic development of plants, and the ripening of fruits, but also on the feelings and whole mental disposition of man.' Many facts bearing on climate have been already... | |
 | Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1855 - 620 pages
...tension ; the purity of the atmosphere, or its admixture with more or less noxious gaseous exhalations ; and, finally, the degree of ordinary transparency...important with respect to the increased radiation from the earth, the organic development of plants and the ripening of fruits, but also with reference... | |
 | Charles Delucena Meigs - Medical - 1854 - 390 pages
...transparency and serenity of the sky. The last condition influences not only the results of the calorific radiation of the earth, the organic development of plants, and the ripening of fruits, but also the moral state of man, and the harmony of his faculties." — Cosmos I. 377. 356. I have extracted... | |
 | David Thomas Ansted - Geology - 1856 - 654 pages
...habitual transparency of the air, and serenity of the sky, which has an important influence, not only on the organic development of plants, and the ripening of fruits, but also on the feelings and whole mental disposition of man." Many facts bearing on climate have been already... | |
 | Emma Willard - Astronomy - 1856 - 230 pages
...habitual transparency of the air and severity of the sky, which has an important influence, not only on the organic development of plants and the ripening of fruits, but also on the feelings and the whole mental disposition of man. "In order to understand what is meant by the... | |
 | Minnesota - 1861 - 420 pages
...transparency of the air and the serenity of the sky" of Minnesota has "an important influence not only on the organic development of plants and the ripening of fruits, but also on the feelings and whole mental disposition of man." The Geologist has no higher duty to perform than... | |
 | George Barrell Emerson, Charles Louis Flint - History - 1862 - 324 pages
...habitual transparency of the air and serenity of the sky, which has an important influence not only on the organic development of plants and the ripening of fruits, but also on the feelings and the whole mental disposition of man." — Coimoi, I. 313. CLIMATE. 88 man ought... | |
 | Isaac Baker Brown (the younger.) - 1865 - 198 pages
...habitual transparency of the air, and the serenity of the sky which has an important influence not only on the organic development of plants, and the ripening of fruits, but also on the feelings and whole mental disposition of man." * * General Sabine's translation of Humboldt's... | |
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... barometrical pressure, the calm state of the air or the action of opposite winds, the amount of electric tension, the purity of the atmosphere or its admixture with more or less noxious gaseous exhalations, and, finally, the degree of ordinary transparency... 
