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As I happen to be the author of a sentence quoted by Prof. Hobbs (NATURE, Dec. 25, p. 915) from a review in the Geographical Journal (Sept. 1926) of his recent book on the glacial anticyclones, may I be permitted to point out that an essential word is omitted from the quotation and that Prof. Hobbs thus misrepresents what I wrote. My full statement was this: “Prof. Hobbs seems to think that the observational evidence fails to warrant the prevalent idea that there are vast circum-polar cyclonic whirls, which he is unable apparently to co-ordinate with his Antarctic glacial ancticyclone. Yet in a masterly analysis Dr. Jeffreys has recently demonstrated (Q. J. R. Met. Soc., vol. 52, p. 85) that whatever superficial increase of pressure there may be over either pole, or over Greenland, in consequence of the cold, this is a shallow surface effect; and that both poles are fundamentally seats of low pressure.”
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BONACINA, L. Polar Pressures. Nature 119, 124 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/119124c0
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