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MR. BUCHAN (NATURE, vol. xx. p. 602) now admits that fundamental mean temperatures are to be found in Table 77. But his original unqualified remark (p. 526) was that mean temperatures for Greenwich “remain still to be calculated”; he even endeavoured to infer the mean annual temperature from the observations of the earth-thermometers, as though Table 77 (containing a value of this element with which no hitherto determined value for Greenwich can compete) had no existence. All this was likely to convey to an uninformed reader a very erroneous impression.
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ELLIS, W. Greenwich Meteorological Observations. Nature 20, 624–625 (1879). https://doi.org/10.1038/020624c0
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