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IN a note in your issue of August 10, adding to the list of values for the mean density of the earth, which you gave on July 27, it is stated that Jolly and Poynting obtained the value 5˙58. This is, I believe, the value obtained by von Jolly, but my final result, as published in the Philosophical Transactions for 1891, is 5˙493.
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POYNTING, J. The Mean Density of the Earth. Nature 48, 370 (1893). https://doi.org/10.1038/048370c0
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