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IN the issue of NATURE for September 17 Prof. D'Arcy Thompson states that he is unable to persuade himself of the validity of Dr. Hjort's conclusions based upon the methods of determining the age of herrings by a study of their scale-rings.
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HJORT, J., LEA, E. The Age of a Herring. Nature 94, 255–256 (1914). https://doi.org/10.1038/094255a0
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