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IN the number of NATURE which reached Madras after the departure of the mail conveying my letter of the 9th inst., I was glad to read Dr. W. Roberts' abundantly full and lucid explanation of the heat produced by breathing on thermometers enveloped in hygroscopic substances. He has, by a very simple method, confirmed the view endorsed in my communication in NATURE, vol. xxiii. p. 534.
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MCNALLY, C. The Temperature of the Breath. Nature 23, 244 (1881). https://doi.org/10.1038/023244b0
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