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Oct 1871
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1871natur...4..465l&link_type=abstract
Nature, Volume 4, Issue 102, pp. 465 (1871).
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IN Mr. Proctor's letter to NATURE of the 23rd ult., he remarks that Prof. Newcomb had stated to him that he was bewildered at having a discussion of the transits of Venus and the parallax of the Sun, deducible from them, prior to that of Mr. Stone, attributed to himself; and Mr. Proctor goes on to state that he was justified in his belief that such a discussion had been made because a writer, signing himself ``P. S.'' had asserted that it had in a letter appearing in the Astronomical Register for December 1868. He further gives two reasons for the unhesitating credit which he had given to the assertion of ``P. S.'' The first of them is that there is strong internal evidence that the writer was a distinguished astronomer having those as his initials (or a part of his initials, it would be more Correct to say); of this it seems scarcely needful to say more, as the writer in question may prefer not to be unearthed. But of Mr. Proctor's other reason, may I be permitted to say a word? It is that the assertion of ``P. S.'' was ``permitted to remain uncorrected.''
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