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IN reply to the letter of “Medicus” in last week's NATURE, allow me again to state that the curious details as to Krupp's gun manufactory, with which the public were enlightened in the Globe of September 11, appeared in that paper as a leading article, and not as a mere “note paragraph,” as “Medicus,” who “never writes articles,” evidently desires to be understood. Had they been in the form of the ordinary newspaper paragraph, containing accounts of some wonderful discovery in zoology, chemistry, or mineralogy, such as, for example, some late ones on “the appearance of a gigantic lizard in North Wales,” “the extraction of the fixed air from the pea sausage for use in the army,” or the “abundance of platinum at Bathgate, in Scotland,’ which I find copied into the Times of to-day, I should not have troubled the readers of NATURE with my letter of September 13.
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FORBES, D. Newspaper Science. Nature 4, 464 (1871). https://doi.org/10.1038/004464a0
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