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Direction of Spirals in Horns

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IN investigating the causes of directions of various spirals, I discovered a certain law and order in the arrangement of the direction of the spiral in horns which will interest many of your readers.

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WHERRY, G. Direction of Spirals in Horns. Nature 63, 252 (1901). https://doi.org/10.1038/063252b0

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