Prof. Sedgwick's Reply to Prof. Milne-Edwards. 195 



XXL- -Rejoinde?' to Professor Milne-Edwards and Mr. Bower- 

 bank. By Professor Sedgwick. 



To the Editors of the Annals of Natural History. 



Gentlemen, 



On my return to the University, after an absence of almost 

 three months, I found that Professor Milne-Edwards and Mr. 

 Bowerbank had replied to my comment on '^ two statements 

 published by the Palseontographical Society in their volume for 

 1852*." I now request you to publish my final, and short, re- 

 joinder, both to Professor Milne-Edwards and to my friend 

 Mr. Bowerbank. 



I have the honour to be. 

 Gentlemen, 

 Your faithful Servant, 



A. Sedgwick. 



Cambridge, August 21, 1854. 



Rejoinder J ^c. 



So far as regards Professor Milne-Edwards, I have only to 

 request any Member of the Palseontographical Society carefully 

 to read over Professor M'Coy's letter to myself, and then to put 

 it side by side with Professor Milne-Edwards's reply. That reply 

 does not so much as touch the facts and statements of Professor 

 McCoy's clenching letter. The reader must, therefore, conclude, 

 that Professor Edwards can neither prove, nor make probable, 

 the charges he has insinuated against Professor M'Coy, and con- 

 sequently that the insinuations recoil upon their author. Under 

 this entire conviction, I venture to call upon the Council of the 

 Palseontographical Society, as a matter of common literary justice, 

 to disclaim the charges insinuated against Professor M^Coy in 

 the 151st page of their volume for 1852. ieupa ^msd 



My rejoinder to my friend Mr. Bowerbank need not be very 

 long. On one point (and one point only) he has the advantage 

 over me. He alludes to a " short " conversation he held with 

 me, during a public meeting at Ipswich (in 1850), when he made 

 a request for a loan of certain Cambridge corals. Of that 

 request I have no remembrance ; and, considering the occasion 



* My comment (containing a letter from Prof. M'Coy) was published 

 in the ' Annals ' for April 1854. The Replies of Professor Edwaixls and 

 Mr. Bowerbank were published in the * Annals ' for May and June 1854. 



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