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SURELY Col. Burrard and Major Cowie have misread the review; it did not dismiss Col. Burrard's speculations, but pointed out that he had himself dismissed, with what appeared to be inadequate examination, an hypothesis which seemed fully capable of explaining the facts. The sentence which has elicited their letters was intended to refer solely to the memoir under review, and had no application to other publications by the same author. The memoir did not, in fact, contain any detailed investigation of an hypothesis which, if tested numerically and in its completeness, appears to be at least as capable of affording an explanation of the facts as that propounded by Col. Burrard. The reviewer may point out that the limited amount of space at his disposal compelled the omission of reference to many points, of which he was well aware, and had fully considered, but in view of the publication of these letters he may be permitted to amplify the argument of the paragraph in the review which has called them forth.
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[Letters to Editor]. Nature 91, 245 (1913). https://doi.org/10.1038/091245a0
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