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I CLIMATE AND ASPECTS OF THE EQUATORIAL ZONE 237fruiting, and leaf-shedding are always going on in one speciesor other. It is never either spring, summer, or autumn, buteach day is a combination of all three. With the day andnight always of equal length, the atmospheric disturbances ofeach day neutralising themselves before each succeeding morn ;with the sun in its course proceeding midway across the sky,and the daily temperature almost the same throughout theyear how grand in its perfect equilibrium and simplicity is"the march of Nature under the equator!