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Shotfiring in Mines

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DEAR PROFESSOR KREISCHER,—I have received your letter of the 2nd inst. I observe that the friends to whom you sent a description of the shot-firing experiments have violated the conditions under which I gave you permission to make your communication to them by already publishing their results, as if they were in some sort original. You mention as a kind of palliative that, although my priority is not distinctly admitted, my name is mentioned in a prominent manner.

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GALLOWAY, W. Shotfiring in Mines. Nature 32, 596–597 (1885). https://doi.org/10.1038/032596c0

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