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THE reviewer of Lieut. Davies's work on Meteors has some what misunderstood the extent to which I have been indebted (in preparing my treatise on Saturn) to Prof. Maxwell's excellent “Essay on the Saturnian Ring-System.” I have quoted in all two and a half lines from that essay, with proper reference to it, and I have devoted one-third of a page to summarising the most important section of the essay. All the rest of my chapter on the Nature of the Rings was written before I had seen Prof. Max-well's contribution to the meteoric theory of the ring-system. I may add that every result in Saturn, which is not distinctly referred to authority, or else obviously common property, has been worked out by myself, as my note-books will abundantly testify.
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PROCTOR, R. Saturn's Rings. Nature 4, 346 (1871). https://doi.org/10.1038/004346c0
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