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diately concerned. How far the giving publicity to a matter so intimately 

 associated with the reputation of the individual conducting the Journal 

 which they support, may or may not interest them, is a question which I 

 must risk. 



Wliatever comments I may feel myself called upon to offer upon the 

 correspondence itself, or upon any of the circumstances with which 

 that correspondence is connected, I disclaim, in resolving upon the in- 

 tended publication, any other object than that of openly showing that my 

 conduct in relation to so important a discovery as the one at Kyson, has 

 not, in my capacity of a public journalist, or that of a private individual, 

 presented any features which could justly be seized hold of as affording 

 grounds for animadversion. 



As I did not contemplate the necessity for publication when I com- 

 menced this correspondence, you will, perhaps, upon the return of your 

 own letter now enclosed, place temporarily in my possession the com- 

 munications you have received from me, that I may carefully compare my 

 copies with the originals. 



I remain, Sir, 



Your's &c., 



EDWARD CHARLESWORTH. 



No. 45. 



December 13, 1839. 

 Sir, 



You have announced in the advertisement sheet 

 of the last Number of your Magazine, your intention to pub- 

 lish the correspondence which has passed between us on the 

 subject of the extinct mammiferous remains, lately found in 

 Suffolk. In the event of your persisting in this course, I beg 

 that you will add to that correspondence the present state- 

 ment, and subjoined letters. 



In my letter elicited by your's of November 10, 1839,' I 

 allude to the painful impression produced by my becoming 

 aware of your intention, in the early part of August last, to 

 publish, as your own discovery, the (j^uadrumanous character 

 of the fossil submitted to my examination by Mr. S. Wood, 

 in the preceding month. 



Your answer, dated November 19th, implied a denial of 

 your having entertained any such intention, by reference to 

 the improbability of my having been able to frustrate it by 

 your own communication of such intention to me. It is 

 nevertheless a fact, that you did mean to anticipate my pub- 

 lication of that discovery, notwithstanding that you yourself 

 declared it to me. 



But I was aware from other sources, that after my exam- 

 ination and determination of the fossil in question, you had 



^ Of this letter I have forwarded you a copy. 



