*ro MR. CHARLESWORTH, 



EDITOR OF LOUDON'S "MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY." 



sJIR, — Mr. Neville Wood having determined (and perhaps wisely) i^t to mart! 

 ■ pages of The NMuralist with any communication of a controversial character with wb5 

 .yow name is connected, I am compelled to resort to this mode of contradicting an assert} 

 you have made in your critical notice of The A'atiiralist, in the October numb$j: of The Mai 

 zincjof Nalural Hislorij, 



The anxiety you evince in this article to promote your own pecuniary interest, by su 

 jfesting the suppression of <(// periodicals devoted to the illustration of Nattn;al History, (e 

 cept, of course, the publication of which you are the Editor), has already excited so much ri( 

 culeand contempt as to require no farther comment ; and I have no wish' "whatever to call 

 question the i)Ood taste yo\i have displayed, in your editorial capacity, upon this occasion, 

 you have, however, also thofight proper, in your virulent abuse of The Naturalist, to imp 

 that I am still connected with that publication, I do not hesitate to state tliat, in making tnl 

 assertion, you haw tcilfiilly and ddibcrately advanced what yoii Kxow to he false. 



You are perfectly WiCll aware that I have had no interest whatever in The Natural 

 since the appearance of the sixth number in Januarij last, as you commence one of your sp! 

 netic commentaries on that work, \nMay last, by observing, "The late conductors of The A 

 turaliil, Messrs. HoU and Maund, having thought it expedient to resign the editorsliip of tli 

 liublication, its continuation has been undertaken by Neville Wood, Esq." 



This extract clearly proves that when you wrote your critical (?) notice in September la 

 you were conscious of the fact that I had long since ceased to edit the work ; but in your an 

 iety to gratify your vindictive spirit you lose sight of the degradation you incur by makij 

 assertions totally at variance with truth. 



I will close this communication by recommending your perusal of an extract from tl 

 Sheffield Iris, which ap])ears on the cover of The Naturalist for November l&st, as it afFor 

 (»viilent proof of the estimation in which your conduct is held by the public press. 



I remain. Sir, 



Yours obedientlv, 



AVirj'TAM HOLL. 



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