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AT the Anniversary Dinner of the Royal Society on November 30, I was honoured by a request from the President to say a few words in acknowledgment of the toast to the Copley Medalist. I did so, stating briefly the origin of my acquaintance with Dr. Mayer's writings. Though Dr. Carpenter at the time was within sight of me, it did not occur to me to introduce his name into my remarks. A few days afterwards I was favoured by a letter from Dr. Carpenter, in which he reminds me somewhat sharply of this and other lapses as regards himself, and requests me to rectify the omission by a brief communication to the Athenæum or to NATURE. It will be fairer to Dr. Carpenter, and more agreeable to me, if he would state his own case in extenso. Here is his letter:—
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TYNDALL, J. Dr. Carpenter and Dr. Mayer . Nature 5, 143–144 (1871). https://doi.org/10.1038/005143b0
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