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THIS pamphlet is a translation, with additions, of a paper originally published in the Journal of the Dutch East India Company. It consists of two portions of somewhat unequal value and interest. In the first section of the book, extending to thirty-six pages, a short but clear summary is given of the evidence bearing on the question of the climate of former geological periods. The references and notes display complete familiarity with the very large literature which is now in existence in connection with this subject. The second and larger half of the pamphlet, extending to nearly fifty pages, is a well-reasoned development of the theme that the variations in the temperature of the earth's surface during successive geological periods were the result of changes in the heat of the sun, and that the sun is in fact a variable star. Anyone wishing to become acquainted with all the recent facts and arguments bearing on the question of the climate of former geological periods, and to find them carefully summarised, with abundant references to original sources of information, will in this little pamphlet recognise a work admirably adapted to his needs.
Die Klimate der Geologischen Vergangenheit und ihre Beziehung zur Entwickelungsgeschichte der Sonne.
Von Eug. Dubois. (Nijmegen: H. C. A. Thieme. Leipzig: Max Spohrr, 1893.)
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Die Klimate der Geologischen Vergangenheit und ihre Beziehung zur Entwickelungsgeschichte der Sonne. Nature 48, 266 (1893). https://doi.org/10.1038/048266b0
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