RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Baer, On the Climate of the Russian Possessions in America. CUL-DAR5.B93. Edited by John van Wyhe (The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 12.2021. RN1
NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volume CUL-DAR5 contains Edinburgh lecture notes, 1825-7; class cards; zoological walk to Portobello; geological notes, Shrewsbury & with Sedgwick; alluvium; Salisbury Craigs; for glacier papers, 1839-42.
Baer on the Climate of the Russian Possessions in America – (Ueber des Klima von Sitcha, &c) – Bulletin Scientifique de St. Petersburg. Athenaeum, no 622 (28 September): 739-741.
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Athenaeum 1839 p 739 Mr Baer's account of the equable climate of the West coast of N. America - & explains cause.
Study this & Richardson's Report to Brit Assoc if second edition in case published.
What is snow-line on West Coast.
Where is case described by Buckland, what glacier could only rub -
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