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ATTENTION was directed by Mr. C. T. Whitmell on p. 320 of NATURE of May 29, to a “very awkward error” in the Smithsonian Physical Tables (1896). The institution is always glad to have attention directed to errors for correction in subsequent editions, but as this particular error does not appear in the first revised, second, third, fourth, and fifth editions, it seems rather unfortunate to have discredit thrown on the tables through an error long since corrected.
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WALCOTT, C. Smithsonian Physical Tables. Nature 91, 478 (1913). https://doi.org/10.1038/091478d0
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