to .nnouncemer.t <«hich te.d .s follows) «„ recently l.,u.<i by th. 

 fZZ errorrrd : /"f"'" »iologl=.l Laboratory, HonoJur^cL.rn- 



^^,<. », "Recently, it was discovered that the depths of reversal of 



rection factor, as described below, ^ ^ * ''°''" 



the™LT'"''n' '"' '^P''° ^' ^^^^^^^^ ^^- the reading of unprotected 

 '^™r h' ^ ^^P^^««"^« ^he pressure^conatant of an unprotecJeS th^^ 



trSepth'o? th "P"^^^^" »^^^^ ™-^- ^^-i^y of the water column above 

 lllA^ A thermometer reversal, which was taken to be 1,0303 in all 



/(^;v„> thrrH?"""1 '^/'^ calculation such that, instead of 

 1/CQxPm). the table consisted of v&lues of (1/Q)xP„ This error <« 

 present in all of the depth data which have been p^blilhed b"thl labo- 

 ratory under its previous name. Pacific Oceanic Fishery Investigaaons 



including ^o'"r' r^ ""^^^-^^'-^ Biological Laboratory ^p t'^ anS' 

 Including 1960 Therefore in, making use of the data published by thi. 

 laboratory before ]96l all depths should be corrected^ dividing each 



depth^^; S tlnT^' 'V'''''- "-^^^Pl^-^ion of all the publia'h'd 

 depths by 0.942 will give the proper value for the depth of each obaerv.- 



ferr\'K *::^^^^^« ^^^^ ^^o^-- that the error described above is present 



/SerM ?%ff' f'"" ''°'' '^"'^^^ ""'^^ ^y -^"^1^ °f the Bureau'" 



< Commercial Fisheries Biological Laboratory, Honolulu after Hueh M %mi ^^, 



cruise 20 (Febr.ary-Aprll 1953) Cruises for which data conSl^TTKIT 

 ^t^orrefl^en::-;-'^^^'^' '-' ''-''-' '^'-' -^^ ^'^ appro^ri'e'u^Ica! 



