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body's velocity. In this last case we have stuck to one point of view and obtained a correct result.

This feature connected with the so-called "addition of velocities" is what Professor Michelson and others so strongly object to in the relativity principle, but the result is a perfectly natural one as soon as we have seen the admissibility of more than one point of view and the difference in estimates caused thereby.

D. F. Comstock
Massachusetts Institute
of Technology