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IN the abstract of my paper read at the Royal Geographical Society on the 8th inst, which was published in NATURE of Nov. 11, there is a statement (p. 34) that the weight of the column of water between 20 fathoms and 70 fathoms from the surface under the westerly equatorial current is only 88 per cent. of the weight of the same column under the easterly counter equatorial current. I regret that a serious arithmetical error occurs in the calculations on which this statement was founded. There is no such considerable difference of weight in the two columns of water.
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BUCHANAN, J. The Similarities in the Physical Geography of the Great Oceans. Nature 35, 76 (1886). https://doi.org/10.1038/035076b0
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