Tuberculosis of the tonsils is by no means a common condition, Mullin (1923), for example, in analysing 400 tonsillectomies found only 4.25 per cent cases of tuberculous tonsils. The present study is based on 2,477 tonsillectomies in the Madras General Hospital. This series covers a period of five years from January 1928 to December 1932. We, however, feel that this investigation is incomplete ...

The goal of maintaining an accurate gravity network at the BIPM headquarters is twofold: firstly to support the International Comparison of Absolute Gravimeters (ICAG), and secondly to support the BIPMwatt balance (WB) project, which aims at determining the Planck constant h or realizing a future new definition of the kilogram based on a fixed value of h. In addition the absolute gravitymeasure...