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TitleCroll, James: certificate of election to the Royal Society
CitationAuthor of many original and valuable contributions to Geology & Physical Geography, of which the following may be named: -
On the Physical cause of changes of Climate during Geological epochs. Phil Mag Augt 1864
" the Excentricity of the Earth's Orbit. Phil Mag Jany 1866, Feby 1867
" Geological Time and date of Glacial and Miocene Periods Id May Augt Nov 1868
" The Physical Cause of the Motion of Glaciers Id March 1869 Sept 1870
" The Supposed greater Loss of Heat by the Southern Hemisphere. Id Sept 1869
" Ocean Currents. Id Feby March Octr 1870; Oct 1871; Feby 1874 March June 1874
" Change of Obliquity of Ecliptic: its effect on Climate. Id June, August 1867
" Physical Cause of Submergence during Glacial Epoch. Id April 1866. Geol Mag July Augt 1874
" Boulder Clay of Caithness & Glaciation of North Sea. Geol Mag May June 1870
" Method of determining mean thickness of Sedimentary Rocks. Geol Mag March 1871
" What determines Molecular Motion? - the Fundamental Problem of Nature Phil Mag July 1872
" Climate and Time in their Geological Relations. 8vo, London 1875
ProposersFrom General Knowledge. Charles Darwin; John Lubbock; John Tyndall; H Charlton Bastian; N S Maskelyne; Henry Woodward; Andrew Scott Waugh
From Personal Knowledge. Andw C Ramsay; John Evans; Arch Geikie; William Thomson; R Grant; Allen Thomson; Robert Etheridge; W Sharpey; James Hector; Edward Hull
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Croll, James: certificate of election to the Royal Society

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