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sage ; but as lie has, uncalled for, entered a disclaimer, I will now 

 specify that lie has, as I believe intentionally, ignored the claims of 

 Nachet, Mr. Greenleaf, and myself. On the 31st of May, 1869, 

 Dr. Woodward gave a lecture before the Biological and Microsco- 

 pical Section of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia ; 

 a synopsis of the lecture is reported in the ' Dental Cosmos,' Phila- 

 delphia, August, 1869.* When he exhibited the photographs of 

 the test-plate, he referred to his paper in the ' Microscopical 

 Journal' for 1868, and is reported to have used the words: "At 

 the time he published that article no microscopist had succeeded 

 in seeing the true hues in any of the bands in this plate beyond 

 the 15th." It seems to most people that this is "ignoring," and 

 something more. But the Doctor may say that he is not re- 

 sponsible for the report. Well, let us see something else that he 

 cannot deny responsibility for. About the time of the dehvery 

 of the lecture, and before that report was issued, he published 

 Dr. Curtis's photographs of the claimed resolution of the 19th 

 band, with two pages of letter-press explanation, a copy of which 

 is now before me. The last two lines read, " These pictures of the 

 Nobert's test-plate are the first photographic representations of this 

 interesting test-object, and the true lines in the 16th, 17th, 18th, 

 and 19tli bands were first resolved at the Army Medical Museum." 

 I will here take leave of the ^subject. 



Boston, Mass., U.S.A., Sept. 30, 1870. 



* P. 397. 



