[Rarebooks] fs: 1886 pamphlet on Climate Change

[Joslin Hall Rare Books, ABAA]

W(V)oeikof(v), Dr. A.  ON THE INFLUENCE OF FORESTS UPON CLIMATE.

[Offprint from the] Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 
Vol.XII, No.57. January, 1886. Forwarded and translated from 'Petermann's 
Mittheilungen', 1885, by J.S. Harding.

Dr. Alexander Ivanovich Voeikov [1842-1916] was a pioneering Russian 
climatologist, and the oldest meteorological institution in Russia, the 
Main Geophysical Observatory in St. Petersburg, is named in his honor. In 
this article he argued that forests are responsible for their own climate 
being cooler and more humid than in surrounding open lands (instead of 
forests simply growing where it is cooler and more humid), and also that 
forests change the climate in the areas surrounding them. This, he 
concluded, would make re-forestation possible in arid areas, and could also 
result in cleared areas becoming more arid than they were previously. An 
interesting 19th century article touching on Man's ability to cause climate 
change. An uncommon and timely offprint.

Softcover. 6"x10", pp.26-36; light wear; several small stamps; evidently 
once bound into a larger volume, with the spine reinforced with sewn 
canvas; folded; better than it sounds.  [08095]  $50.00


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