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WE have read with much pleasure your notice (vol. xv. p. 403) of Sir William Thomson's lecture on Navigation, and are prepared fully to endorse your remarks as to the value of Mr. Hartnup's system of rating ships' chronometers, by which account is taken of the change of rate due to change of temperature.
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PARKINSON, FRODSHAM Ship's Chronometers. Nature 15, 470–471 (1877). https://doi.org/10.1038/015470c0
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