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Excerpt from An Address: Delivered Before the St. Louis Mercantile Library Association, January 6th, 1872 Now this is but a fair illustration of the sum and substance of the origin of the theory of the Thermometric Gateways to the Pole and Surface Currents of the Ocean that I had the honor of first submitting to this Society in the winter of 1868 - 9. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.