“Gas-Burners, Old and New”

Abstract

PERMIT me to point out a very obvious clerical error in the notice, in last week's NATURE (p. 270) of my little work having the above title, and to make a few remarks concerning your criticisms on the book. In the sentence, “‘Owen Merriman’ has taken pains to insist on the two great desiderata of gas-burners—high temperature and low temperature,” the latter word is doubtless intended for pressure; and the sentence should read “high temperature and low pressure.” It would have been scarcely necessary to make this correction, but that the notice may perhaps be read by many who are incapable of suggesting the correct reading, and to whom therefore the sentence as it stands will be absolutely meaningless.