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fossil, he may have conceived himself justified, having your pennission, in 

 publishing as his own, what I again repeat was my discovery. 



I remain. 



My dear Sir, 



Faithfully your's, 



RICHD. OWEN. 

 Searles Wood, Esq. 



I now subjoin the following answer from the curator of the 

 museum of the Zoological Society, to a question proposed to 

 him by me, and quoted by Mr. Waterhouse, in his letter. 



No. 51. 



Zoological Society, December 6, 1839. 

 My dear Sir, 



I have hut this moment received your note, and hasten to 

 answer your question, whether Mr. Charlesworth, in the early part of 

 August, did not avail himself of my assistance in comparing the fossil 

 tooth described in the * Magazine of .Natural History ' for September, 

 1839, with the recent quadrumanous crania in the Society's museum. Mr. 

 Charlesworth did bring that tooth to the Society for the purpose of com- 

 parison. Our specimens of skulls being under lock and key, I got them 

 out for him, and he examined them in my presence. I also examined the 

 fossil, and compared it with the recent skulls, but I am sure I gave no 

 opinion to the effect that the fossil formed part of the jaw of a Macacus. 

 I am, dear Sir, 



Faithfully your's 



GEO. R. WATERHOUSE. 



To an enquiry which I made of Mr. G. B. Sowerby, Jun., 

 as to the date when Mr. Charlesworth ordered the wood-cuts 

 of the quadrumanous fossil, I received the following answer. 



No. 52. 



Dear Sir, 



My only dates respecting the woodcuts Nos. 57 and 58, 

 p. 444 and p. 447, in the ' Magazine of Natural History,' which were or- 

 dered by Mr. Charlesworth, are very vague, and refer, not to the time of 

 the instructions being given, but of the drawings being executed. To the 

 best of my knowledge, the magnified figures were drawn on or about the 

 12th of August, having been ordered two or three days before, and the 

 natural-size figure, the latter end of the same week, or the beginning of 

 the following. 



My dear Sir, 



Your's truly, 



G. B. SOWERBY, Jun. 

 R. Owen, Esq. 



This is the evidence which leads me to conclude that, had 

 not my remonstrance on the subject of publishing my own 

 account of Mr. Wood's fossil been effectual, the wood-cuts 



