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following statement, which the Council agreed to record in their minutes, 

 instructing the Secretary to insert it in the nest number of the printed 

 Proceedings of the Philosophical Society, and transmit a copy of the 

 publication to M. Bernard, Paris : — 



'' To the Council of the Glasgow Philosophical SooiETr, 



" Gentlemen, — My attention having been called to the possibility of 

 misconception as to a paper ' On the Occurrence of Sugar in the Animal 

 Economy,' (read by me to the Glasgow Philosophical Society, on 20th 

 February, 1850, and printed in their proceedings for that session), in 

 consequence of the omission of certain oral statements which I made to 

 the Society, I have to state, that I never claimed, and do not claim, 

 originality for that communication, which I read to the Society as an 

 account of the researches of Bernard and of the experiments which I had 

 repeated in confirmation of them ; that I accompanied the reading with 

 such extemporaneous and interspersive remarks as rendered this fully 

 evident at the time (as appears from letters on the subject from the 

 Secretary, Editor of the Transactions, and Dr. Stenhouse, one of the 

 members of Council, which letters are herewith produced) ; that the 

 paper was printed on request, with a postscript hastily added to supply 

 the place of these oral remarks ; and that I regret that the manner in 

 which the paper has been expressed has been such as to lead to miscon- 

 ception. 



" I am. Gentlemen, 



" Your most obedient servant, 

 " Glasgow, 3d November, 1852. " Arthuk Mitchell." 



GLASGOW: 

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