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IN NATURE of 29th September, 1870, there is an abstract of a paper read at the British Association by Mr. Laughton, maintaining that the preponderance of west over east winds over the entire globe is such as to point to a cosmical force of some kind, moving the atmosphere round the earth from west to east; and concluding “that the motive force for which we are seeking, is really the disturbing force of the attraction of the heavenly bodies.”
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MURPHY, J. The Prevalence of West Winds. Nature 3, 306 (1871). https://doi.org/10.1038/003306a0
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