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Suspects that discrepancy between old and new commercial weights of Standard Pound may be due to trapped air in new standard. Needs WM's reply soon, so JH may inform India Committee on weights and measures.
Record created for the Calendar of the Correspondence of Sir John Herschel (CUP: Cambridge), 1998 by Michael J. Crowe ed., David R. Dyck and James J. Kevin assoc. eds
Digital record created by Dr Marvin Bolt and Steven Lucy at the Webster Institute of the Adler Planetarium
Converted to TEI by Michael Hawkins, Epsilon Project, Cambridge University Library
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