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IN view of Prof. Fraser Harris's letter in NATURE of February 3 and of his implied complaint that so little has been written on the phenomenon since Galton discovered it, possibly the record of some observations that I made upon my own son more than eleven years ago, when he was between seven and a half and eight years old, may be worth notice. I was in correspondence with Galton about the case shortly before his death; and, in fact, a letter to him, reporting the result of further inquiries suggested by him, was lying on my desk ready to be posted when I opened the daily paper and read the announcement of his death.
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PERRYCOSTE, F. Coloured Thinking. Nature 106, 829–830 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/106829a0
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