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R. L. WEBER, professor of physics in the University of Kiel, has published in the Journal für Gasbeleucht ung und Verwandte Beleuchtungsarten sowie für Wasser-versorgung a copy of an address on the divining rod read by him at Flensburg in September last. Dr. Weber regards belief in the powers of water diviners as a form of antiquated superstition and gross error; he is of opinion that there is no evidence that the movements of the rod are due to any cause outside the diviner, who is the subject of self-deception. He bases this view on the results of careful investigation, but, in so far as the paper in question is concerned, only one instance of actual experiment is given (see below).
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W., J. The Divining Rod . Nature 88, 228 (1911). https://doi.org/10.1038/088228c0
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