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PROF. KERR, in the course of a letter which appeared in NATURE of May 15 under the above heading, paid me a high tribute by stating that, during the summer of 1917, “the value of the principle [i.e. obliterative colouring] was now recognised [by the Admiralty] and its application entrusted to skilled hands,” but the main point in his letter was to show that the principle of obliterative colouring was no new thing, and was common knowledge to biologists: this no one will question. My aim in replying to his letter is with the view of showing that I was not working on biological lines, and is thus to remove a misapprehension.
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WILKINSON, N. Camouflage of Ships of War. Nature 103, 304–305 (1919). https://doi.org/10.1038/103304d0
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