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THE question of absolute accuracy in barometer readings is one of great importance to meteorologists; but there has been so much uncertainty shown by the accumulated facts relating to the subject, that I think that no one who has carefully studied the matter has felt fully satisfied that strictly comparable international standards had been obtained. An uncertainty of at least 0˙1 mm. was indicated by the various international comparisons of normal barometers which have been carefully made and discussed during the past ten years. I think that at last a definite conclusion has been reached, and that the very recent results published in paper No. 4, Band xvi. of the Repertorium für Meteorologie will be accepted as proving that at St. Petersburg at least normal readings are obtained.
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WALDO, F. Standard Barometry. Nature 47, 511–512 (1893). https://doi.org/10.1038/047511a0
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