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The criticism which I made about Prof. Tolansky's description of the hollow cathode was that it is “concerned too much with complicated and obsolete forms”. I do not fail to appreciate the work which has been done with this light-source in its most important forms, but I criticize the relative amount of space devoted by Prof. Tolansky to obsolete and little-used varieties.

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JACKSON, D. Letter. Nature 160, 909–910 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/160909c0

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