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THE propagation of sound is a question with many bearings in the province of physics, and the researches of physicists in relation to it, though numerous, have left some points still under discussion. It is useful in the view of further inquiry to be furnished with a historical survey of what has been already done, and this is the object of a recent memoir by Dr. H. Benno-Mecklenburg, published in Berlin (a résumé of which to the following effect appears in the May number of the Journal de Physique).
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THE VARIOUS METHODS OF DETERMINING THE VELOCITY OF SOUND . Nature 18, 558–559 (1878). https://doi.org/10.1038/018558a0
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