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THE general public cannot fail to acquire some very extraordinary as well as erroneous notions about many subjects relating to the progress and application of the different branches of Natural Science, if we are to judge from sundry scraps of information, daily communicated or reproduced for their instruction, in the columns of even the most influential newspapers. Amongst recent examples of this style style of information we might refer to the following:—

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F., D. Newspaper Science. Nature 6, 60 (1872). https://doi.org/10.1038/006060c0

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