At the opening of his address as President of the American Climatological Association, some five years ago, Dr. Edward O. Otis, of Boston, said: "It is quite improbable, I think, that we should be here to-day, or, indeed, have an existence as a society largely devoted to the consideration of diseases of the chest, were it not for the methods of thoracic examination which Auenbrugger and Laennec have given us in their discoveries of percussion and auscultation.
"Makers of Modern Medicine"
James J. Walsh
By closely examining the effects of clearing off the woods, we should perhaps find that, far from being an evil, it is an advantage; but these questions are so complicated when they are examined in a Climatological point of view, that the solution of them is very difficult, not to say impossible.
"The Earth as Modified by Human Action"
George P. Marsh
So, too, even among the largest organisms there will be a diminution of activity periodically inspired by Climatological conditions.
"The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays"
J. (John) Joly