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taining not only the notice of himself and Mr. Wood, on the 

 Macacus, No. 2, but also a paper of your's, on the fossil, No. 

 3, which you announced as a Didelphis, without making any 

 allusion to the opinion previously given by Mr. Owen, that 

 the fossil. No. 1, belonged to a Didelphis. I told Mr. Owen 

 that I thought this uncandid, which led him to state how 

 nearly you had anticipated him in the publication of the dis- 

 covery of the quadrumanous nature of the fossil. No. 2, and 

 that you had only been prevented from so doing by his re- 

 monstrance, and his insisting on his right to communicate 

 himself to the public the result of his own prior investiga- 

 tions, which had already been made known to you. 



A consideration of these circumstances decided me not 

 to offer my account of the Kyson and Newboum fossils 

 for publication in the ' Magazine of Natural History,' where 

 they might otherwise have succeeded Mr. Wood's paper ; 

 and I accordingly agreed with Mr. Owen, that an account of 

 them should be inserted, with Mr. Taylor's permission, in 

 one of the next numbers of the ' Annals of Natural History.' 

 It then became desirable that Mr. Owen should compare the 

 fossils, Nos. 1 and 3, both then supposed to be marsupial. 

 I therefore sent a request to Mr. Colchester, to lend me the 

 jaw. No. 3, with which he immediately complied ; and in my 

 letter to him, I mentioned that I did not feel satisfied (for 

 reasons already explained to you in my letters) with the 

 manner in which you had proceeded in regard to the publi- 

 cation of No. 3. 



In your letter to Mr. Owen, (Nov. 10, 1839), you reassert 

 as a fact, that previously to going to Birmingham, Mr. Owen 

 had intimated to you a suspicion that the first discovered 

 tooth might turn out to be quadrumanous. This he has posi- 

 tively denied, and I repeat my conviction, that you must be 

 entirely mistaken on this point, as it is impossible, that 

 during my intercourse with Mr. Owen in August and Sep- 

 tember, when conversing on this subject, I should have re- 

 mained ignorant of any doubts entertained by him, of the 

 marsupial nature of the tooth, No. 1, which he allowed me 

 to announce on his authority, at Birmingham. It was six 

 weeks after you wrote your paper, that the suspicion entered 

 Mr. Owen's mind for the first time, and he immediately came 

 to tell me that he felt some annoyance at having, after his 

 first cursory comparison, misled me. 



T shall now conclude by observing, that whatever difference 

 of opinion there may be on other points, there will, I am 

 persuaded, be but one opinion as to the propriety of your 

 printing this correspondence, and making your Magazine a 



