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IT is to German scientific men that we owe the first steps taken in order to ascertain data concerning the actual climatic effects of forests. Since then, however, most civilised countries, except Britain, have been actively engaged in the collection of accurate data concerning this very important subject. So far as those data have yet been collated and compared they lead to the following results.
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NISBET, J. The Climatic and National Economic Influence of Forests. Nature 49, 302–305 (1894). https://doi.org/10.1038/049302a0
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