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MY attention has been drawn to a letter in NATURE, vol. xi. p. 67, signed “W. T. Thiselton Dyer,” and headed “Royal Agricultural Society and the Potato Disease” It appears that Prof. Dyer has founded the statements and criticisms in that letter upon a paragraph which appeared in the preceding number of NATURE. Had he taken the trouble to read the official reports that have been published by the Society in the agricultural newspapers, the criticisms he might then have made would probably have had some value; and I must express my surprise that a man of scientific pursuits should have omitted to take that most necessary and most elementary course which I may term the verification of fundamental facts. This is the more remarkable as he criticises the Society's want of “methodical scientific method of investigation.”
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JENKINS, H. The Royal Agricultural Society and the Potato Disease. Nature 11, 109 (1874). https://doi.org/10.1038/011109a0
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