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 MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



Art. I. Retrospective Criticism. 



APOLOGY to Professor Rennie from Mr. Doubleday and the 

 Cojiductor. — Sir, Allow me, through the medium of your 

 pages, to offer an apology to Professor Rennie, for a very 

 unhandsome and uncalled-for attack upon him, which I was 

 guilty of in your November number, p. 767. The injunction 

 being now removed, I do not hesitate to withdraw entirely 

 the charge I there brought against him, and to express my 

 sincere regret that I should ever have acted towards him in so 

 unbecoming a manner. I do this the more willingly, as I 

 have no personal enmity against him whatever. Yours, &c. — 

 E. Doubleday. Epping, Dec. 1. 1832. 



We are perfectly aware of the great talents of Professor 

 Rennie, and his ability to treat the subjects upon which he 

 has written ; we therefore sincerely regret having admitted 

 the article of Mr. Doubleday alluded to, both on that account, 

 and because we consider it to be discreditable to the Maga- 

 zine to contain in its pages an article in such excessively bad 

 taste. How it escaped us we really cannot say, having before 

 rejected an article by the same writer in the same strain. 

 We shall endeavoufr to be much more particular in future, 

 and trust never again to give the professor any cause for 

 complaint. — Cond. 



Three Calves produced at a Birth, all fertile. (Vol. V.p. 765.) 

 — An opinion having prevailed very extensively, that in twin- 

 born calves, one is generally, if not invariably, sterile, and that 

 this occurs in the female, when the twins are of different sexes, 

 and this opinion having been sanctioned, to a certain extent, 

 by the authority of John Hunter, although he states instances 

 to the contrary ; and others are mentioned by Dr. Moulson 

 (Vol. V. p. 765.), it may not be uninteresting to your corre- 

 spondent U. of Cambridge (p. 396, 397- ), and may assist him 

 in his enquiries on the subject, to be informed of three calves 

 having been produced at a birth, and all proving fertile. At 

 the Hill Farm, about a mile from this town, a small polled cow, 

 the property of Mr. Reuben Allen, brought forth three cow- 

 calves, in the early part of January, 1828, which were reared, 

 and each has calved twice, and are all expected to calve 

 again in the course of next month. These animals now belong 

 to Mr. Samuel Treacher of Wycombe, and are rendered 



