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DR. BALL, in his reply (NATURE, vol. xliv. p. 592) to my criticisms on his “true history” of the Koh-i-Nur, feels aggrieved that I “smite him in season and out of season,” and considers me in the light of a partisan for doing so. I can assure him that my criticisms were absolutely impersonal, as I have never, to my knowledge, seen him in my life, and bear no kind of illnatured feeling towards him; indeed, I said whatever I was able honestly to do in favour of his work. But of course, where I considered his arguments to be groundless or illogical, I met them. If he has read into my remarks an asperity I did not desire to impart to them, surely he should blame himself somewhat for the style of his attacks on those who went before him, and of whom I have shown that they knew not less, but more, of the subject than he did himself.
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MASKELYNE, N. The Koh-i-Nur. Nature 45, 5–7 (1891). https://doi.org/10.1038/045005d0
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