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NATURE, in its issue for November 16 (1899), did me the honour of devoting considerable space to a modest publication of mine, “Conduct and the Weather,” a fact to which I feel free to allude, since the reviewer found so little to praise. One remark of his, however, was suggestive to one “bound hand and foot by the demon of statistics.” In commenting upon the indicated excesses of arrests for assault and battery during the hot summer months he says, “In our own ignorance we were rather tempted to attribute these lapses of good conduct to too free indulgence in alcoholic beverages in the hot weather.” Here was a cue worth following out. The data were available, why not use them?
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DEXTER, E. Drunkenness and the Weather. Nature 61, 365–367 (1900). https://doi.org/10.1038/061365e0
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