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PARIS. Academy of Sciences, September 4.—M. Lœwy in the chair.—Report upon a memoir by M. Defforges, entitled, on the distribution of the intensity of gravity at the surface of the globe, by MM. Fizeau, Daubrée, Cornu, Bassot, Tisserand. This memoir, submitted to the judgment of the Academy by the Minister of War, summarises the theoretical and experimental researches made during eight years in the geographical service of the army, with the object of determining the absolute intensity of gravitation for a small number of primary stations, and the relative intensity for a large number of secondary stations with simplified apparatus.
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Societies and Academies. Nature 48, 484 (1893). https://doi.org/10.1038/048484a0
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