Abstract
IN this memoir Dr. Fritsche has very fully gathered together the various meteorological observations which have been made in Eastern Asia up to the present time, and discussed them in such a way as to cast additional light on the laws of meteorological phenomena ruling in that part of the globe. With the aid of the fresh information obtained from the observations of the past dozen years which it may be remarked have been made with instruments generally of improved quality and at known heights above sea-level, he has made several important rectifications on the isothermal and isobaric lines of Eastern Asia; and stated with more adequate emphasis than has been done heretofore the extraordinary climatic influence of that enormous mass of unbroken land practically destitute of lakes and of the cold arctic currents which wash its eastern coasts.
The Climate of Eastern Asia.
By Dr. H. Fritsche, Director of the Imperial Russian Observatory at Peking. Pp. 210, Maps 18. (Printed at the Celestial Empire Office, Shanghai.)
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Our Book Shelf . Nature 21, 175 (1879). https://doi.org/10.1038/021175a0
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