[en] The authors provide some historical and clarifying material to complement the accompanying two papers 'Cryogenic detection of neutrinos?' 'Cosmic-ray disturbances in thermometry and refrigeration', written in 1974. Without reviewing the present situation of thermal and calorimetric detectors. They then make a shortcut and speculate on the use of novel coherent detectors in the study of neutrinos and dark matter. Although the link between the former and the latter detectors is rather weak, both use ultralow temperatures, and one is based on the weaknesses of the other. (author). 8 refs