Six Months in Ascension

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Excerpt from Six Months in Ascension: An Unscientific Account of a Scientific Expedition

For many reasons I think this is a matter of regret. Mere details of observations are never looked at, ex cept by a very limited number of specialists; to the general public such details are meaningless as well as inaccessible; whilst the ordinary student usually accepts the result merely as he finds it quoted in some standard work or text-book.

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