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PROF. WILLIAMSON said that his distinguished friend, their president, had spoken the truth to a certain extent; but at the same time there was in what he had said a slight measure of what a particular school would call the suggestio falsi. He believed that if a balance of account could be struck between them it would he found that he (the lecturer) was enormously the gainer from the fact that be enjoyed the same name as the president. As far as he could arrange the balance it was this—that their president was debtor one dinner which he (the lecturer) always contended his friend had got because he had received a card of invitation which did not belong to him—while, on the other hand, there was an item of credit to the extent of all the learning the president displayed at every meeting of the British Association, but for which, at least in the North of England, he (Prof. W. C. Williamson) was usually credired. Under these circumstances he thought it would be seen that instead of his being the loser he was in reality an enormous gainer.
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Coals and Coal Plants * . Nature 8, 446–447 (1873). https://doi.org/10.1038/008446a0
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