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procured it from Mr. Wood, and had had illustrative cuts of 

 it prepared, having, as Mr. Wood has since informed me, 

 undertaken to furnish a description of it to accompany Mr. 

 Wood's paper. The wood-cuts of the fossil were ordered by 

 you, according to Mr. G. Sowerby, Jun., before the 12th of 

 August last, without my knowledge, and without the advan- 

 tage which might be derived from my directions. It was not 

 until after I had insisted on my right to describe the fossil 

 which I had determined, that Mr. Sowerby received directions 

 from you (dated 15th August), to call upon me with the proofs 

 of those cuts, which were then applied to illustrate my de- 

 scription. 



The following are the letters which have passed between 

 Mr. Searles Wood and myself on this subject. 



No. 46. 



6, Park Cottages, Regent's Park, 



Dec. 5, 1839. 

 Dear Sir, 



A letter has been drawn from me under the usual confidence 

 of private correspondence, by Mr. Charlesworth, which I observe he has 

 advertised in the December Number of his Magazine to publish. In that 

 letter I allude to the fact, well known both to you and myself, that Mr. 

 Charlesworth had entertained the intention of describing the fossil tooth 

 and fragment of a jaw of the Macacus^ which he received from you in the 

 early part of August last, after its quadrumanous nature had been deter- 

 mined by me. Mr. Charlesworth now denies that he ever entertained that 

 intention, and as such denial implies that I had, without motive or provo- 

 cation, wilfully invented a groundless charge against Mr. Charlesworth, I 

 am compelled to request from you a* statement, whether you have or have 

 not reason to believe that Mr. Charlesworth did intend to describe the 

 fossil in question, before I insisted on my right to describe what I had 

 been the first to detennine. 



I remain, 



Dear Sir, 



Your's very truly, 



RICHD. OWEN. 



Searles Wood, Esq. 



No. 47. 



Bernard Street, Dec. 6, 1839. 

 My dear Sir, 



The result of the examination, which, at the end of last 

 July you kindly undertook for me, of the Kyson Quadrumanous Remain, 

 led me to conclude, that as the jaw was that of a species of monkey which 

 is so commonly carried about in this country, it might probably have been 

 accidentally introduced into the heap of sand from which it had been 

 sifted I had, therefore, no intention of publicly calling attention to it ; 

 I immediately wrote to Mr. Tiyell, telling him of the supposed fossil, and 

 also mentioned my fears respecting its genuineness. A few days after- 



