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I DESIRE to give an unqualified denial to the imputation made by Mr. Lowne in his letter to NATURE of April 9 (p. 528), that my opinion with regard to his paper on the structure of the eye in Arthropods was formed under the influence of my colleague, Prof. Lankester, or that any consultation upon the paper took place between us. References of papers for the Royal Society are strictly confidential, and I did not know the name of the second referee until after I had come to a conclusion upon the subject—a conclusion which was only arrived at as the result of a long and patient investigation of Mr. Lowne's preparations, and the nature of which may be inferred from the fact that I advised the author to withdraw his paper and submit the subject to a renewed investigation, with the aid of improved methods.
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SCHÄFER, E. Mr. Lowne on the Morphology of Insects' Eyes. Nature 32, 3–4 (1885). https://doi.org/10.1038/032003d0
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