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I DID not intend to reply to Prof. Osborne Reynolds' letter in NATURE, vol. xii. p. 6, but some persons expect me to say something about it. If the Professor would be careful not to answer me with the ideas that occur to him as he is “on the point of sending off the paper” (see Phil. Mag., Nov. 1874), he would save himself the trouble of many explanations. After my thousand experiments it is scarcely respectful to try to overcome all by his few, and, after three years of my thought, rather hasty to tell me that he explained it all so suddenly with perfect certainty, and that I am unable to comprehend him. It is also scarcely wise to lead us to infer that probably he cannot explain the whole, but that he knows somebody who will soon do it.
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CROOKES, W. Attraction and Repulsion caused by Radiation. Nature 12, 125 (1875). https://doi.org/10.1038/012125a0
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