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THE letter by Dr. Orton and Prof. Lewis (NATURE, February 16, p. 236), urging the necessity for continuous fundamental research on the constitution and biological character of streams, as a background for the study of problems of river pollution, will appeal to all, in virtue of its breadth of treatment and logical argument—but to none so strongly as to the biological worker already concerned with a special problem of river pollution. Such problems are many and varied, but undoubtedly the solution of any one of them requires at the outset a clear concept of the conditions of life in streams in general, and in unpolluted streams of the home district in particular.
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CARPENTER, K. Problems of River Pollution. Nature 113, 385–386 (1924). https://doi.org/10.1038/113385a0
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