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These lavish volumes feature highlights of five of the collections in the J. Paul Getty Museum. Each volume contains between seventy-five and one hundred objects, handsomely reproduced in full color and described by members of the curatorial staff. ... Read more

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These lavish volumes feature highlights of five of the collections in the J. Paul Getty Museum. Each volume contains between seventy-five and one hundred objects, handsomely reproduced in full color and described by members of the curatorial staff. ... Read more

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These lavish volumes feature highlights of five of the collections in the J. Paul Getty Museum. Each volume contains between seventy-five and one hundred objects, handsomely reproduced in full color and described by members of the curatorial staff. ... Read more

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Volume: 6Publisher: Berkeley, Calif., University of California PressPublication date: 1902Subjects: PlantsNotes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:as passes, as Donner Pass, Tioga Pass. These places where the continuity of the summit region is interrupted are numerous but to only a few can much significance be reasonably ascribed as barriers to plant invasion from the north. The first depression which seems significant is that through which the railroad passes from Sacramento to Truckee (Donner Pass, 7,000 feet); a number of forms present in the northern Sierra do not appear to the southward. The second of these possibly significant depressions occurs about 120 miles to the southeast, intersecting the summit east of Yosemite Valley; Tioga Pass, 9,941 feet, breaks the continuity of the arctic-alpine life-zone for a distance of about three miles. The last gap reasonably to be considered as effective in this connection is some 25 miles southeast of Tioga Pass. This last pass has not been visited by me but Professor J. N. Le Conte describes32 the High Sierra breaking down completely at Mammoth Pass (9,350 feet), where the crest consists of rolling hills and the forest belt crosses the range for a space of 20 miles.CLIMATOLOGY CLIMATE OF THE SIERRA NEVADA The data bearing upon the climate of the higher Sierra, and especially of the region included within the limits of this report, are still so fragmentary that only general statements are warranted. The section across the range, through which the Central Pacific Railroad passes, has been longest studied and its central position permits certain general conclusions to be drawn concerning the climate of the Sierra as a whole. In very recent years there has been an increasing interest in the climate of the California mountains and numerous stations of record have been established.The climate of the Sierra is conditioned by its northwest-southeast trend across the track of ... ... Read more