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REFERRING to Dr. Haldane's recent paper on “The Maximum Efficiency of Heat Engines”, an abstract of which appeared in NATURE of August 29, 1925, it was difficult when reading the paper to grasp the precise basis upon which the majority of Dr. Haldane's reasoning rests. Some light was thrown on this obscurity, however, by Dr. Haldane's reply to the discussion of his paper. On p. 409, vol. 69, Part 5, of the Transactions of the Institution of Mining Engineers, he says:
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DOWSON, R. [Letters to Editor]. Nature 117, 266–267 (1926). https://doi.org/10.1038/117266b0
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