APPENDIX. 63 



No. 41. 



16, Hart St., Nov. 25, 1839. 

 If Mr. Cliarlesworth should think j&t to print certain letters which 

 were written to him by Mr. Lyell without any expectation of their being 

 made public, Mr. Lyell wishes it to be known that this is done without 

 his sanction or participation. 



Mr. Lyell also begs, that in that case the whole correspondence which 

 has passed on both sides may be published in full, and that this note may 

 be added to the rest. 



No. 42. 



Mr. Charlesworth conceived that the word ' correspondence,' as used in 

 his letter to Mr. Lyell, of the 18th inst., necessarily referred to the letters 

 on both sides, and that it could not be construed as referrible only to " cer- 

 tain letters" of Mr. Lyell's. 



Mr. Charlesworth willingly accedes to Mr. Lyell's request respecting the 

 including his note of yesterday, with the rest of the correspondence. 



As it regards Mr. Lyell's protest against the publication of the letters 

 in question, Mr. Charlesworth has to observe : — 



1st, That the correspondence contains no details of a confidential nature. 



2dly, That Professor Owen, in the ' Magazine of Natural History' for 

 April, 1838, spoke of M. Coste (a continental physiologist), as a pretender, 

 who sought to appropriate to himself a discovery which had been commu- 

 nicated to him by Prof. Owen ; and that Mr. Charlesworth having then 

 expressed, as the Editor of the Magazine, his own unfavourable opinion 

 of the part apparently transacted by M. Coste, is now himself charged by 

 Prof. Owen with the prospective commission of an act involving the same 

 culpable violation of principle. 



3dly, If the charge or charges against Mr. Charlesworth be founded on 

 truth, Mr. Charlesworth himself is the only party who has [or ought to 

 have] anything to fear from the publication of the correspondence, as such 

 a publication can only tend to elicit other facts or circumstances connected 

 with the matter which may not yet have appeared. On the other hand, 

 if the charges are destitute of foundation, Mr. Charlesworth is certainly 

 justified in attempting to vindicate himself by the publication of the cor- 

 respondence, as well as that of any circumstantial details bearing upon 

 the subject, which it may be in his power to advance. 



Nov. 26th. 



No. 43. 



16, Hart Street, Bloomsbury Square, 



Dec. 11, 1839. 

 Sir, 



Since I last heard from you, when you an- 

 nounced your fixed determination to print the correspondence 

 which has passed between us, I have seen your letter to Mr. 

 Owen, dated Nov. 10, 1839. In reply to several observations 

 therein contained respecting me, I request you to publish the 

 following statement. In July, 1839, I was shown, when at 



