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IN his interesting communication on the above topic (NATURE, vol. xxvii. p. 491) Dr. Francis Galton has inadvertently fallen into a mistake which quite seriously affects the numerical deductions which follow. He erroneously assumes that “the number of vibrations per second caused by whistles is inversely proportional to the specific gravity of the gas that is blown through them.”
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LE CONTE, J. Hydrogen Whistles. Nature 28, 54 (1883). https://doi.org/10.1038/028054c0
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