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IT is most unfortunate, but an obvious fact, that in the sheet of composite portraits of American notabilities in NATURE of June 25, Figs. 2 and 3 are impressions from one and the same negative. Not only are they alike, but they present the same peculiarities, even the same defects. If it were not so, they would serve to blow to shivers the whole edifice founded upon such averages; for if 16 naturalists and 31 academicians present two composites which are indistinguishable, to what purpose is the average?
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INGLEBY, C. Composite Portraits. Nature 32, 224 (1885). https://doi.org/10.1038/032224a0
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