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Letter: Letters: Not the first

Published 30 May 1992

From JOHN DAINTITH

Julyan Cartwright is correct in saying that Kekule had more than one
dream, and that it was the fireside dream that inspired his cyclic structure
for benzene (Letters, 2 May). I can only assume that I was asleep when I
wrote the original letter.

John Daintith Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire

Issue no. 1823 published 30 May 1992

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