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The Cleavage of Slates

Nature volume 72, page 152 (1905)Cite this article

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I FIND that I owe Mr. Fisher some apology for a carelessly worded allusion in my notice of Dr. Becker's memoir (p. 20, May 4). In pointing out that the theory which I criticised had been anticipated by Mr. Fisher, I ought, perhaps, to have mentioned that the latter had somewhat qualified his original hypothesis, though the postscript notifying this qualification was, I believe, only privately printed.

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