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BOTH the subject and the method of treatment of the Theory of Water Finding by the Divining Rod, by Mr. B. Tompkins, W.F., are so unlike what are usually met with by those gentlemen whom you, Mr. Editor, honour by a request for a review, and there are such risks of becoming involved in a sort of fourth-dimensional conflict or of giving offence, that 1 feel the case is one in which the reviewer should write in the first person, and sign his name. Neither the editorial we nor the security of anonymity would, in my opinion, be appropriate.
The Theory of Water Finding by the Divining Rod: its History, Method, Utility and Practice.
By B. Tompkins, author of the “Theory of Water Finding.” Second and enlarged edition, with illustrations. Pp. ix + 127. Copyright and all rights reserved. (Published by the author, B. Tompkins, Expert Water Finder, Chippenham, Wilts, 1899.)
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BOYS, C. The Theory of Water Finding by the Divining Rod: its History, Method, Utility and Practice . Nature 61, 1–4 (1899). https://doi.org/10.1038/061001a0
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