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Letter: Mossy mistake

Published 2 February 2005

From James Dickson, University of Glasgow

As the only scientist studying the mosses found with the Tyrolean Ice Man, I can assure you that there were no mosses of any kind, lowland or upland, found in the Ice Man’s shoes, which had been insulated with grass (25 December, p 59).

Glasgow, UK

Issue no. 2485 published 5 February 2005

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