Proceedings of the Liverpool Geological Society, Vol. 5

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Excerpt from Proceedings of the Liverpool Geological Society, Vol. 5: Session the Twenty-Sixth 1884-85, Part II was, however, very much interested when I met with this calculation, for though it appears incorrect in most particulars, it is the first attempt I know of to measure the average waste of the drainage basin of a river. Previously Mr. A. Tyler had the credit of origi nating this mode of investigation (changes of the Sea Level, Phil. Mag., which was more fully worked out by Dr. Geikie (trans. Geo. Soc. Of Glasgow, and Dr. Croll (in Geo. Time Phil. Mag, If Phillips had been in the habit of making these calcula tions he would have seen at a glance that the result was wrong, and would have checked his figures. To preserve accuracy it is, however, essential to have all calculations checked by another individual, for as far as my experience goes, even mathematicians are no more exempt from errors of calculation than ordinary men.The worst circumstance connected with these errors is, that they get copied from one book to another without any attempt at verification. Of this I could give nume rous instances, but such a course would be invidious, and raise too great a storm about my ears.It would seem, however, as if the figures possessed little' meaning to most people, or the inaccuracies would be more quickly detected, at least by scientific men. For my own part, I can only say I shall feel indebted to any one who may find errors in my own calculations, if he will take the trouble to acquaint me with the fact.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.