...hills, out of the reach of seed from the natural Firs." there it is brought about naturally — by the inclination of the earth's axis to the plane of the ecliptic — and the amount of sunlight received during the season of growth is immensely greater than anywhere...

...about the various altitudes of the sun i' different seasons of the year, no reference beinjr truck to the inclination of the earth's axis to the plane of the ecliptic, or to altitudes at noon. On p. n we read : — " By refraction we mean the property of the atmosphere...

...although, of course, the change in such obliquity ought more properly to be described as a change in the inclination of the earth's axis to the plane of the ecliptic. The more conventional phrase leads to a misconception in the untrained mind, to the effect that somehow...

...coincidence is ascribed to the solar origin of these magnetic vortices, and to the correlative fact that the inclination of the earth's axis to the plane of the ecliptic is 23° 28'. In short, these discoveries, (here only partially and cursorily mentioned,) sustained...