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me. And as Mr. Cohkn also mentions foreign countries, I m-dy add 

 that I have, indeed, carried on a controversy with Mr. Tammann, 

 from which it therefore appears that on that side, as I had, indeed, 

 expected, 1 meet with opposition; but I may state that on tiie other 

 hand both before and after tiiis controversy I have received expres- 

 sions of great sympathy with my views from very competent colleagues 

 from Germany, Sweden, England, and America, expressed in letters 

 or publications, which if this should be considered desirable, I shall 

 be glad to lay before the Committee of this Academy. 

 Amsterdam, Febr. 1914. 



(April 23, 1914 I 



