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THE substance of Dr. Gohar's letter1 is contained in his fourth paragraph: “It is therefore possible to determine the volume and weight-in-air of such animals, excluding the water they contain, by weighing in two samples of water of different but known specific gravities”. No experiments are described. The Archimedean formula is correctly stated on the assumption that the volume of the animal remains the same in the two samples of water: this can be true, of few animals.
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BIDDER, G. Weighing Living Marine Animals. Nature 147, 328–329 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/147328a0
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