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As regards the particular passage in my edition of Deschanel which I am challenged to defend by your Reviewer (NATURE, vol. iii. p. 343), his charge, which is somewhat obscured by rhetorical embellishment, seems to be that in the factor H–h/760 it has not been indicated that H and h, as well as 760, denote so many millimetres of mercury at zero. I think this was scarcely necessary, as the question whether the observed or reduced heights of the mercurial columns should be employed, is not one on which a doubt could occur to the mind of any intelligent reader, reduced heights being invariably employed in the chapter in which the passage occurs, and in the book generally.
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EVERETT, J. Deschanel's Physics. Nature 4, 405–406 (1871). https://doi.org/10.1038/004405b0
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