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I AM glad to have occasioned the rejoinder of H. E. A. in NATURE of Dec. 26, though I am frankly horrified at his proposal for a coup d'État followed by the dictatorship of the Royal Society. I fear the adventure would end with that august body in the tumbrils.

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FENN, L. National Needs. Nature 129, 98 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/129098b0

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