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IN NATURE, vol. xix. p. 460, Mr. Buck complains of the drawing in the Graphic for December 28, wherein the observer is represented as “sloping the barometer at an angle of about 30° from the vertical”, in order to take a reading on a marine barometer by means of the lantern for better illumination. May not the artist be correct, and Mr. Buck have discovered a mare's nest? The barometer may be placed entirely horizontal for reading the scale, after the vernier has once been set when the instrument was vertical.
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COPPOCK, C. Unscientific Art (?). Nature 19, 484 (1879). https://doi.org/10.1038/019484a0
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