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MR. PEARSON will find much information as to extreme readings of the barometer in two papers published in the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society; one by Mr. H. Sowerby Wallis, in vol. viii. p. 147, and the other by Mr. C. Harding, in vol. xiii. p. 201. The lowest known reading is stated, on the authority of Mr. Blanford (NATURE, vol. xxxv. p. 344), to be 27˙135 ins. observed on September 22, 1885, at False Point, on the coast of Orissa; this requires a subtractive correction of ˙011 to bring it to English standards, reducing it to 27˙124 ins. The highest known reading is given, on the authority of Prof. Loomis, as 31˙72ins. at Semipatalinsk, on December 16, 1877, giving an extreme range of 4˙6 ins.
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MELLISH, H. Height of Barometer. Nature 50, 400 (1894). https://doi.org/10.1038/050400a0
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