The chief differences between recent determinations of the P travel time curve beyond about 24° may be expressed, in each case, as a deviation in the slope of the curve which is approximately constant throughout the range. If one of these curves is used to calculate the residuals of P times from a seismic event, with station corrections applied, then it is possible to solve simultaneously for the value of this deviation and for the source correction. This has been done for the nuclear explosions Longshot and Greeley, using the 1968 P tables and the Herrin-Taggart station corrections. In both cases the calculated deviation was close to that of the Cleary-Hales curve. The analysis of the Longshot data was repeated using the times and station corrections derived by Lilwall and Douglas, and essentially the same result was obtained. © 1969.