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Other, Mr. Cliarlesworth can hardly imagine that both of them should have 

 fallen into the same kind of exaggeration, or misrepresentation, but 

 would rather conjecture (as Mr. Lyell does not appear disposed to press 

 any charge of undue appropriation)^ that they must have misunderstood 

 the substance or the purport of Mr. LyeH's remarks. 

 Nov. 9, 1839. 



[Statement accompanying the above letter to Mr. Lyell. J 



Having learned in A.ugust last, through my friend Mr. Searles 

 Wood, that a mammiferous tooth, found a considerable time 

 since in the London clay, near Woodbridge, had been re- 

 ferred by Professor Owen to an opossum ; and that a second 

 mammiferous tooth, more recently discovered, had also been 

 referred by Professor Owen to an existing geims of monkeys; 

 I visited Suffolk, for the purpose of examining the spot which 

 had produced these remains, and returned thence the latter 

 end of the week preceding that during which the British As- 

 sociation met at Birmingham ; bringing with me a third 

 mammiferous tooth, obtained subsequently to the two teeth 

 already mentioned, and of which the Jlrst discovered speci- 

 men was in the possession of Mr. Lyell, and the second in 

 the possession of Mr. Wood. I had received permission 

 from Mr. Colchester, the discoverer of these remains, to pub- 

 lish the third tooth, and I conclude either that the same per- 

 mission had been given respectively to Mr. Lyell and to Mr. 

 Wood, as it regarded the publication of the first and second, 

 or that these gentlemen felt themselves at liberty to make 

 that use of the specimens in their possession. I knew Mr. 

 Lyell to be either in Scotland, or on his way to Birmingham, 

 and Professor Owen I believed to be likewise absent from 

 London, as upon my going into Suffolk, he had named to 

 me the day on which it was his intention to leave, for the 

 purpose of attending the meeting of the British Association. 

 Being anxious that a figure and description of the third 

 mammiferous tooth should appear in the following number of 

 the ^Magazine of Natural History,' in which number Mr. 

 Wood was about to publish an account of the seccnd, and 

 quadrumanous fossil tooth, I lost no time in consulting ( for 

 the purpose of comparison), the valuable collection of cra- 

 nia in the museum of the Zoological Society; and having 

 determined what appeared to me the affinities indicated by 

 the tooth in my possession, I immediately placed it in the 

 hands of the artist, there being barely time to have it drawn 

 and engraved sufficiently soon to admit of its intended publi- 

 cation. I called on the following morning (Saturday), at the 



