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Sts,—May I lament, not the burying of the Coffin, but

the ignorance of the present generation of geographers who are unaware that it was once 'Professor Taylor's Coffin:' For indeed, it was my invention, as witnessed by my old lantern slides, and the files of the Geographical Journal (July. 1938). The formulation of a quarter of a century ago is now outdated, Ralphs Ride, Bracknell, Berkshire E. G. R. TAYLOR