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By the courtesy of the Editor of NATURE we have seen the foregoing letter from Prof. Börnstein, in which he states that our letter to NATURE of Dec. 4, 1926, confirms an earlier observation of his as to the presence of β-methylanthracene in low temperature tars from certain Westphalian coals (Berichte der Deutschen Chemischen Oesellshaft, 39, 1238 ; 1906). In a later communication (ibid., 59, 2812 ; 1926) Börnstein, Schliewiensky, and Szczesny Heyl had expressed a contrary opinion, but Prof. Bornstein's footnote now indicates that this discrepancy was due to a typographical error. With this correction his two observations are now in agreement with ours.
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MORGAN, G., PRATT, D. The Constituents of Low Temperature Tar. Nature 121, 357 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/121357a0
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