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IN Sir Robert Ball's paper on this subject, which appears in your last number (p. 607), that author states that the calculation given “has convinced him that Mr. Croll's theory affords an adequate explanation of the Ice age.” It is more in the hope of obtaining from Sir Robert a statement of the grounds of this conviction than for the purpose of controversy that I write this letter.
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MONCK, W. The Astronomical Theory of the Great Ice Age. Nature 35, 7 (1886). https://doi.org/10.1038/035007c0
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