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ties, it is very obvious, you do not possess) will, I feel assured, 

 instantly repudiate the disingenuous and disreputable con- 

 duct of his Editor. Your's obediently, — W. Holl. 57. Pall- 

 Mall, Thursday, 3 d Clock." 



We are aware that Mr. Holl found the attempt to establish 

 the Naturalist a most unfortunate speculation ; and, in starting 

 a two-shilling monthly Magazine of Natural History, it is 

 more than probable that he did not calculate upon the issue 

 of a New Series of Mr. Loudon's. It is easy, therefore, to un- 

 derstand why the present conductor of this Journal should be 

 deemed " thoroughly contemptible " in the estimation of Mr. 

 Holl, and, perhaps, of some of the "eminent scientific" sub- 

 editors acting under him. The present occasion, however, is 

 certainly ill selected for the expression of this opinion ; for, if 

 the editor of the Analyst is so truly unfortunate as to have 

 fixed upon an associate who can surreptitiously attach his 

 name to a circular, he (Mr. Holl) must thank his own want 

 of judgement and discretion for the consequences, and not 

 attempt to involve us in the responsibility. The fact of Mr. 

 Holl having no connexion with the Naturalist, as at present 

 carried on, is a circumstance not at all affecting the general 

 question ; because the circular refers to the sale of the back 

 numbers; and, even if we had for a moment suspected that his 

 name had been appended without his knowledge or sanction, 

 we could not have mutilated 'the document, by omitting the 

 signature. The style and tone of Mr. Holi's disclaimer will 

 injure no one's reputation but his own; and the epithets, 

 "dishonourable," "disreputable," "disingenuous," "base," 

 &c, will occasion us about as much uneasiness, as if we were 

 spit at by the llama in the Zoological Gardens. 



So far as Mr. Neville Wood is concerned, the expose elicited 

 by our late remarks is, perhaps, without a parallel. Two most 

 serious charges are admitted against this gentleman: in one 

 instance, by the proprietor of the Magazine which he (Mr. 

 ■Wood) edits; and, in the other, by an individual with whom 

 he is even more immediately associated ; and these charges 

 are sent for insertion in the columns of a contemporary pe- 

 riodical \ We will not, however, dilate further upon a sub- 

 ject which we have been most reluctantly compelled to advert 

 to in any way, and which the parties who are implicated in 

 the transaction have, by their own conduct, forced upon the 

 public— Ed. 



Wildgeese in Germany. — There occur two species of wild- 

 geese m the inland parts of this country. The great grey 

 goose, called marzgan (A'nser cinereus, the grey lag goose of 

 Bewick), and the saatgans, or moorgans (A s nas segetum, the 



