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Flower power

Published on
June 18, 1999
Last updated
May 27, 2015

Before you start your smug annual competition for student howlers, please remember "...tinkering with geranium alloys...(led) to the invention of the transistor" ("The lords of the flies", THES, June 4).

Philip T. Smith Department of psychology University of Reading

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