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Title: Scottish geographical magazine
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: Scottish Geographical Society Royal Scottish Geographical Society
Subjects: Geography
Publisher: Edinburgh, Royal Scottish Geographical Society
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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t a correction of that amount should be added to thedensities obtained by hydrometers in order to render the results accurate.Dr. Murray requested me to investigate the whole matter, together withany bearing the results might have on the Challenger work, and pro-vided me with such hydrometers and other instruments as were requiredfor the investigation. This paper is the result of experiments comparingthe density values given by the Sprengel tube and the hydrometer;observations by the latter instrument having been taken both on landand on board ship. Weighing the water in a Sprengel tube is admitted by all observersto be the more accurate method. The instrument is a glass tube bentinto a U or V shape, with a capillary tube at each extremity, one of themhaving bulbs blown into it. The instrument used for the experiments 1 Read before the Royal Society of Ediuburgli, ou May 21st, 1894. 2 Scot. Gcog. Mag., Jau. 1893, Dickson on the Waters of the English Channel. EXPLANA^1 ^OF COLOTSjiS ^1
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