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IN the Graphic for December 28 there appeared a sketch of a man taking a reading on a marine barometer, on board the Sarmatian, during the voyage of the Marquis of Lorne to Canada. To see the scale better by the light of his lantern, the observer is represented as sloping the barometer at an angle of about 36° from the vertical.
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BUCK, J. Unscientific Art. Nature 19, 460 (1879). https://doi.org/10.1038/019460e0
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