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Analyses of Books. 



[June, 



It would appear from the preceding table, that the ocean in 

 the southern hemisphere contains more salt than in the northern 

 hemisphere in the proportion of 1-02919 to 1-02757; but the 

 great propcrtion of the specimens in the northern ocean were 

 taken at a much higher latitude than tliose in the soutlierc. 



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