Abstract
I FULLY acknowledge that the diagrams on pp. 84 and 85 are correct if taken by themselves, but in the explanatory letterpress given below Fig. 57 it is stated that the distribution of pressure is “owing to the condensation of the cooler air over the sea and the expansion of the warmer air over the land.”. The necessary inference is that the area over the land is one of low pressure and that over the sea of high pressure, with the winds blowing into the latter. On examination of the diagram I see that this is opposed to the inference which may be drawn from the course of the “level” of equal pressure, and hence I conclude that the error arises from a misprint, which may be easily set right by transposing the words “sea” and “land” in the statement I have put in italics.
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“Structural Geography”. Nature 80, 157–158 (1909). https://doi.org/10.1038/080157b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/080157b0
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