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ling each, and yet not giving the purchasers of those prints 

 fully to understand that in one of two instances, the said 

 prints were not faithful to the specimens they professed to 

 represent. But then, as a set-off against this, it was to be 

 borne in mind how nobly Mr. Hawkins had acted in the dis- 

 posal of the originals ; first offering to sell his collection to 

 the British Museum for £4000. But that offer being de- 

 clined, and Mr. Hawkins feehng that the speedy getting rid 

 of his Saurians, and their transfer to the Museum, was " of 

 moment to the honour of his country, and the interests of 

 science," offers to let them go at any price that Dr. Buckland 

 shall name ; and not only this, but Mr. Hawkins colours 

 the artificial to match the real portions so exactly, or rather, 

 as it would seem, the real are made to look so Uke the artifi- 

 cial, that his own valuer, notwithstanding his long familiarity 

 with the specimens, mistakes the one for the other, and does 

 not give Mr. Hawkins so much by several hundred pounds, 

 as he was fairly entitled to. Then there was the liberality 

 of putting the modelled parts into the bargain, without saying 

 one word about them, showing that Mr. Hawkins could not 

 have been actuated by any mercenary motives, as in that case 

 he would naturally have suggested that two Italian savans 

 should be entrusted with the forming a separate valuation of 

 such parts of the Ichthyosauri as consisted of plaster of 

 Paris, the value of the genuine remains being entrusted to 

 his own countrymen. For my own part I cannot understand 

 why Dr. Buckland should cast a slur upon Mr. Hawkins as 

 it respects the sale of his prints, in opposition to the sale of 

 his specimens. I admit, says the Doctor, that the Sau- 

 rians are not so perfect as they are made to appear, but this 

 matter does not affect the Trustees, for as they have posses- 

 sion of the collection, they can take care no one shall be 

 deluded, by pointing out the imperfections. 



It is very true that it lay in the power of the Trustees to 

 issue orders for the artificial parts to have a colour different 

 to that of the parts which were genuine, but I wonder it 

 should never have occurred to Dr. Buckland, with all his 

 fertility of imagination, that the purchasers of the litho- 

 graphic prints being the actual possessors of those prints, 

 could inspect the Saurians in the Museum, and by the use 

 of the same means make their copies agree with the originals. 

 If this plan would in some measure deface the prints, the 

 same thing may be said of colouring or otherwise marking 

 the specimens themselves. I therefore contend that the pur- 

 chasers of the specimens, and the purchasers of the prints 

 representing those specimens, equally having it in their 



