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diate any sentiment towards you, akin to such as Mr. Charlesworth has 

 given utterance to, and that 



I remain, 



My dear Sir, 



Faithfully your's, 



mCHD. OWEN. 

 Searles Wood, Esq., &c., &c. 



No. 49. 



13, Bernard Street, 



December llth, 1639. 

 My dear Sir, 



If I rightly understand your request it refers to the 

 publication of my letter, in which case you are quite at liberty to 

 make that use of it. Indeed I think for my own sate, as well as Mr. 

 Chai'lesworth's, full publicity had better be given to all the corres- 

 pondence that has taken place, unless some other arrangement satisfac- 

 tory to all parties should be made. 



Mr. Charlesworth did not show me or consult me about the letter to 

 Mr. Lyell, from which you have sent me an extract, but I agree with 

 him, that the intention imputed to him in your statement of what oc- 

 cuned at the College of Surgeons, between yourself and Mr. C, 

 does indirectly implicate me, as Mr. Charlesworth must in that case 

 have persuaded me to suppress the fact of my having been in the first 

 instance to you with the fossil, and as I am sure no such intention was 

 entertained, or even thought of, by either of us. I hope that Mr. 

 Charlesworth s public explanation will remove any suspicion of dis- 

 honorable motives having influenced either his own or my conduct in 

 this matter. • 



I remain, my dear Sir, 



Yours truly, 



SEARLES V. WOOD. 



To Richd, Owen, Esq., ^c. ^c. 



No. 50. 



Park Cottages, Regent's Park, 



Dec. 13. 

 My dear Sir 



I beg again to disclaim the imputation of any fraudulent 

 or dishonourable motives, either to yourself or Mr. Charlesworth, in his 

 intended description of the quadrumanous fossil belonging to you The 

 ideas of dishonour and fraud, as connected with that intention, are exclu- 

 sively Mr. Charlesworth's. 



I felt hurt when I became aware of his intention, deeming it un- 

 friendly, and, as far as I could ascertain the circumstances under which he 

 had taken upon himself to describe that fossil, uncandid. On one occasion 

 only have I ever suffered an intimation of the annoyance it occasioned me 

 to escape my lips. If Mr. Charlesworth was led to suppose that he had 

 been the first to discover the extinct character of your quadrumanous 



