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I. I. The Pressure-Corrections supplied to the “Challenger” along owith the Thermometers WHEN I was first asked to examine the thermometers I judged, from the appearance and nature of the protection over the bulbs, that very slight corrections only would be required, even for the greatest pressures to which they had been exposed. But Sir Wyville Thomson told me that a correction of at least half a degree Fahrv had been assigned for them for every mile under the sea. This correction had been given him by Capt. Davis of the Admiralty, who had in his experiments 2 the assistance and advice of such exceedingly able experimenters as the late Prof. W. Allen Miller and others.
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The Pressure Errors of the “Challenger” Thermometers 1 . Nature 25, 90–93 (1881). https://doi.org/10.1038/025090a0
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