Section IT., 1911. [127] Trans. R. 8. C. 
The Origin and Treatment of Discrepancy in Trustworthy Records. 
By Hervey M. Bowman, Pu. D. (Lipsiensis). 
Presented by W. D. LeSueur, LL.D. and read by Title, May 16, 1911. 
Copyright, Canada, 1912, by Hervey M. Bowman. 
(All rights, including translation, reserved.) 
PREFACE. 
The concluding section of this paper, entitled the Treatment of 
Discrepancy, is not intended to be an exhaustive discussion of that 
subject, but only a summary of the chief points of agreement and 
difference between the prevailing treatment of discrepancy and the 
principles deduced from the author’s experimental test. 
In historical method the author acknowledges himself a pupil of 
Professor Buchholz, formerly of the University of Leipsic, now of the 
Royal Academy of Posen. The present research, in so far as it re 
lates to the problem of discrepancy in ordinary history, may be regard- 
ed as a test and vindication of views derived from practical instruction 
by that scholar in the treatment of médiæval and modern records. 
The author, in giving the origin of the views here advanced, is far from 
wishing to unburden himself of their defence. They rest on a found- 
ation laid by another, and the author mentions the fact only in order 
to acknowledge a fundamental debt. His thanks are due further to 
Dr. Le Sueur of Ottawa, the Vice-President of the Royal Society of 
Canada, for reading the manuscript and suggesting improvements which 
have been embodied in the printed paper. 
