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drawings of well-known parts of the Pyramid, — hand drawings, — ar. : 

 accurate ones too. of parts of the Pyramid alread] and thereby 



he destroyed knowledge, and retarded the development of the public mind. 



(d). Prof.Smytl re gbedthe grey granite ball. and four, i 1 8320 gis.; and there- 

 fore declared it to be a profs. - - 7 I : -^ I an miva belonging to some of the hod- 

 men about the Pyramid : S:r Gr. Wilk nson haw ng a re : 

 weight ::' the Egypt :■-'- m " --- a* 8303 ;~ c But he advised Mi '" Dixon to 



have it and — tatrve e ghed by the ■ Warden of the Standards." 



The Warden : :' the S-andards did so, made the weight 0*03 gr. different 

 from Prof. Smyth's, and then wrote a letter to M Nature. "' December 26, 

 describmgthe whole affair on one side, giving a wandering anachronical conclu- 

 sion of his own. that the ball mar Lave been an Egyptian m/ra. without saving 

 a word of Prof. Smyth's conclusion; and then, worse still, declarir : 

 S r H Jar* : - pamphlet in 1S69 was : - : most satisfactory account 



of the length of the jreatPyrani : 5 box-side, and advocatingboth his 1 Sir H. T-'s) 

 mistaken reading of Herodotus and his garbled version of the result of direct 

 measures 



(f). Two letters have been sent by independent parties to u Nature.*' 

 : the errors of the Warden of the Standards, but its editor has 

 refused them both insertion : and, consequently, a third party has sent off a 

 letter to u Les Mondes '" in Paris. 



LIGHT. 

 Mr. H. R. Procter ha= lescribed bo the Newcastle I -f~ al Sue ety a glass 



reading-scale for direcl vision spectroscopes. The apparatus consists of a 



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t1*3 + Se769 1Gfft& 



.---- frame : ; .. - planed boards, for holding Browning s diref: 

 pocket spectroscope and reading-scale- a a, wood block ■ 



