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Two letters have recently appeared in NATURE (October 17, p. 594, and November 29, 1895, p. 29), in which Sir Henry Howorth attacks Sir Robert Ball as the author of a work entitled “The Ice Age,” on the ground that the supposed astronomical cause of glaciation is totally inadequate to produce the alleged effect.
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Phil. Mag., December 1894, p. 541; Geolog. Mag., decade iv. vol. ii. No. 7, p. 3, January 1895, and No. 368, p. 55, February 1895. Since this letter has been in type, I have read a valuable paper by Mr. G. F. Becker (Amer. Journ. Sci., vol. xlviii. August 1894), in which he concludes that zero eccentricity of the earth's orbit will present the condition most favourable to glaciation. I have to thank Sir H. Howorth for reminding me of this paper.
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DARWIN, G. The Astronomical Theory of the Glacial Period. Nature 53, 196–197 (1896). https://doi.org/10.1038/053196d0
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