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MR. CARUS-WILSON's failure (January 9, p. 222) to obtain sounds, from, “millet seed” sand of highly spherical grains puts a difficulty in the way of the suggestion made, in “Sound” by Poynting and Thomson, though I do not think that it finally disposes of it.
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POYNTING, J. Musical Sands. Nature 77, 248 (1908). https://doi.org/10.1038/077248b0
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