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PROF. EVERETT's first letter contains the statement “Deschanel, in accordance with what has been till recent years an almost universal custom, employs a variable unit of force, and as depending upon this, a variable unit of mass, so that the number denoting the mass of one and the same body is diminished as the body is carried from the equator to the poles, and would increase up to infinity if the body fell to the centre of the earth.”
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W., W. Measurement of Mass. Nature 3, 266 (1871). https://doi.org/10.1038/003266a0
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