APPENDIX. 35 



' Will you state to the Committee, from the drawing before you, what 

 parts in the specimen purchased are artificial besides the right paddle, and 

 which were not therefore honestly represented in the drawing before you ? 

 — With the exception of about 13 of them, all the processes of the verte- 

 hr<B and several ribs are artificial. 



These 13 processes of the vertebra, which you have just described, 

 appear upon the drawing to be a part of the genuine remains i* — They are 

 not represented as restorations. 



And these processes, which are artificial, are also represented as genuine ? 

 — Yes ; all the rest are plaster. .The lias surrounding those vertebral pro- 

 cesses which I have mentioned as genuine, is also natural ; namely a patch 

 of about 20 inches by 4, is real lias ; the rest was made up of plaster 

 of Paris with lamp-black, to imitate lias, with cracks and rifts passing 

 through the bones ; but I do not say it was done with a view to impose 

 upon anybody, or that either Dr. Buckland or Mr. Mantell did mistake 

 that portion for lias. 



Suppose you had been called upon to purchase a specimen, an engraving 

 of which had been shown to you, separating the artificial from the natural 

 parts, should you have been led to suspect that other parts than those 

 actually represented as artificial, were really artificial ? — I might perhaps 

 have agreed in opinion with the two gentlemen who made the valuation, 

 but I am not certain of it. 



That is to say, you would have been misled by a drawing which pre- 

 tended to distinguish between the natural and artificial portions of the spe- 

 cimens purchased ? — Yes." 



The following two letters from Mr. Hawkins to Dr. Buck- 

 land, I extract from the appendix to Mr. Hawkins's work. 



No. 23. 



Clifibrd Street, Bond Street, June 25, 1834. 

 I received your most condescending favour this morning, 

 soon after my arrival in town, for which I am exceedingly obliged and 

 grateful. The zeal you evidence to serve me overpowers me, and I beg to 

 coincide with every wish that you express and every suggestion. I can 

 appreciate the delicate motive which causes you to decline the proposition 

 made you of being sole referee, and I shall be very happy to associate 

 Mr. Mantell (or any other gentleman you may please to name) with your- 

 self upon this occasion, and rest perfectly content whatever be the result — 

 proud in having my labours numbered and valued by persons so infinitely 

 well calculated to the task. Feeling the importance of this business, 

 which you so generously undertake, and convinced that its speedy resolu- 

 tion is of moment to the honour of our country and the interests of science, 

 I hesitate not to place myself entirely at your command, and to follow 

 implicitly your directions. 



P.S. I shall remain in town that I may the better follow your instruc- 

 tions, which I await, anxiously. i "'' -^ "; 



The Rev. Prof. Buckland. , ^^^,^;^; 



No. 24.^^^^^^^l^; 



Clifford Street, July 9, 1834. 

 Most anxious to effect the final disposition of my Collection 

 in the Museum, and conscious of the objections that a large sum of mo- 



