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MAY I, not as an expert in science, but as one who has made some research into the conditions of lucidity, venture to thank you for the protest which appears in your current number against a misleading application of the familiar term “Light”? This is not of course the only instance of the kind; but it seems especially regrettable as tending, by the very success and popularity of the Lectures reviewed, to introduce gratuitous confusion into youthful minds.
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WELBY, V. Misleading Applications of Familiar Scientific Terms. Nature 57, 536 (1898). https://doi.org/10.1038/057536a0
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