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470 ZONES AND REGIONS 



Suc/i climatic conditions are confined to these climatic districts belonging to 

 the ivarm temperate belts, and accordingly the oecological character of their 

 vegetation, particularly the prevalence of evergreen xcropliilous zvoodland, is 

 ivithoiit analogy in the tropical zones, or in the belts with a cold winter in the 

 temperate zones. 



SELECT LITERATURE. 



The meteorological tables are from — 



Zeitschrift der osterreichischen Gesellschaft ftir Meteorologie. I-XX. 1S66-18S5. 

 Meteorologische Zeitschrift der deutschen und osterreichischen meteorologischen 

 Gesellschaft. 1882-1S96. 

 The general descriptions are chiefly based on — 



Hann, Handbuch der Klimatologie, second edition, 1S97 ; and Atlas der 

 Meteorologie, Gotha, 1887. 

 In reference to South Africa — 

 K. Dove, Das Klima des aussertropischen Siidafrika. Gottingen, 188S. 



