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[WE have received further communications from Professors Tyndall and Tait on the subject of the correspondence that has appeared in our columns. We feel that we are only consulting the true interests of Science in declining to print further communications on a subject which has assumed somewhat of a personal tone, and in this idea we are supported by many of the best friends of both parties, who, however, will approve of our giving the following brief extract from Dr. Tyndall's communication:—“My letter was rapidly written, and the proof of it reached me, not on the Tuesday evening, as I expected, but on the Wednesday morning when I was in the midst of my preparations for Bradford. I had therefore little time to give it the calm thought which it ought to have received. On re-reading it I find two passages in it which I think it desirable to cancel. The first is that in which I speak of lowering myself to the level of Prof. Tait; the second that in which I reflect upon his manhood. These passages I wish to retract.”—Ed. NATURE.]
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Tait and Tyndall. Nature 8, 431 (1873). https://doi.org/10.1038/008431a0
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