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Boltzmann's proposition of the equal distribution of 

 energy among the different degrees of freedom. The 

 objection which had been raised against this theorem by 

 Crum Brown was supported by Liveing, Lord Kelvin, N/ 

 J. J. Thomson, Hicks, and Osborne Keynolds. 1 



1 Nature, xxxii. 1885, pp. 352, 533. 



