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I AM glad to find, by Mr. Wilson's letter in NATURE for October 26, that the word “aspect,” which I suggested, is accepted by him as satisfactory; as, in fact, the word wanted. But another correspondent in the same number, Mr. Proctor, pertinaciously insists on the superior merit of the word “position,” to be used in the particular sense explained by Mr. Wilson in his former letter. In this I conceive Mr. Proctor is entirely wrong.
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LAUGHTON, J. A Plane's Aspect. Nature 5, 7–8 (1871). https://doi.org/10.1038/005007f0
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