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UNDER the signature of Z., I find in your issue of the 16th inst., a short notice of “The Interior of the Earth.” A clerical error made during the Epsom or Ascot races, such as F.L. instead of E.I., is excusable, though not comprehensible; a misquotation which he has made may be pardoned, but a misrepresentation purely from neglect of reading is quite unbearable. He tells your readers that I proceed “to explain the earth's heat and volcanic phenomena by a like action on buried vegetable matter.” If he had read p. 33, he would have found that to the cause alluded to “I partly assign the changes which have taken place in the strata connected with our coal pits.” Z. thinks that a perusal of Lyell's “Principles” would have stopped the writing of my book, I beg to tell him, that this work was the first that convinced me of the great geological error which I have exposed. Z. does not seem to have read my reasons for using Page as my text-book; I hope he is not hurt at being left out himself, but if I had quoted from all the books I have read on the subject, I should have been as unintelligible as some of them.
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MALET, H. The Interior of the Earth. Nature 2, 141 (1870). https://doi.org/10.1038/002141c0
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