The change of po (pressure times volume of a constant mass of gas) with pressure or density at constant temperature and low pressures is treated as a characteristic physical quantit.y. Various methods of determining this quantity from available experimental data for several gases, including He, Ne, A, H~, N2, and O2, are examined with special reference to the reliability of the values at 0° C.Reliable values for these quantities are important for many purposes, such as correcting temperatures measured by means of gas thermometers to the thermodynamic scale and in the derivation of the absolute t emperature of the ice point,