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Newspaper Science

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MR. FORBES does not stand alone in his experience of newspaper science. The Globe, however, is not generally looked on as a scientific paper, and no one would be likely to go to it for information on matters other than political. What shall we say, however, to the following paragraph, copied verbatim et literatim from the columns of the Mark Lane Express for September 4?—

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BENNETT, A. Newspaper Science. Nature 4, 425–426 (1871). https://doi.org/10.1038/004425c0

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