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As I am assured that it would be most undesirable as well as unbecoming of me to continue a scientific controversy in the tone of Mr. Mallet's letter which appeared in NATURE of October 9, I would only beg those who have perused it to remember that my remarks were altogether directed to the assertions contained in Mr. Mallet's introductory sketch, and not comments upon his theory of volcanic energy of which, as he himself admits, we as yet know little or nothing. I would then ask them to compare its contents with the substance of my letter in NATURE, Sept. 4, and judge for themselves whether so far from its being any answer to my arguments, it does not, on the contrary, furnish additional “evidence of his confounding chemical constitution with percentage composition, &c.,” the very keynote of this discussion.
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FORBES, D. Mallet-Palmieri's Vesuvius. Nature 8, 528 (1873). https://doi.org/10.1038/008528a0
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