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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11724, 5 August 1901, Page 6

The Globe lately stated that according to Professor Dumas, of Belgium, travellers and farmers agree that the land is drying, the waters are shrinking, and the deserts extending, and he maintains that the drying of continents is duo to a failure of rainfall, that is to say, of moist winds from the oceans. This failure comes from a diminution of evaporation, and therefore of condensation. The remedy for this condition of things, which tends to famine, is to increase the vegetation of the earth. An animal body contains 75 per cent, of water, which is gradually given off from the skin, lungs, etc.; a green plant contains 70 to 90 per cent, of water, which is eliminated by its leaves 400 times faster than the animal can, eliminate it. Ihe growth of trees' and vegetables therefore would not only help to preserve the proportion of oxygen in the atmosphere, as Lord Kelvin showed, but also the supply of water. . . ~ The first lecture cf the nursing course will be given to ladies at the office of the centre, Mercantile Chambers, on Tuesday at three p.m. . V- - , . . t \ On Tuesday night, at King's College, Remuera, Mr. Horace H. Hunt will give a Dickens: entertainment in aid of the funds for furnishing the new science laboratories. The programme will be the same •as given by Mr. Horace Hunt with such srveot success at Faraell on Friday last.