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I WOULD first thank those correspondents who have replied to my difficulties with respect to certain theories of the function of the cochlea. Unfortunately, the fundamental physical difficulty has not received the consideration that I hoped for, probably because it was not made sufficiently clear. Sir Thomas Wrightson (NATURE, November 7) gives a quotation from Helmholtz which does not seem to me to meet the case, but perhaps it was written in connection with a different aspect of the problem. It is not obvious how the dimensions of the space filled with liquid in relation to the wave-length of the vibrations affect the nature of the process. If it were the case, the conduction of sound in liquids should be of a different nature according to the dimensions of the vessel and the pitch of the note. May I, therefore, put the question in another way?
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BAYLISS, W. The Perception of Sound. Nature 102, 263–264 (1918). https://doi.org/10.1038/102263b0
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