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XXXIV. Observations on certain free Remarks ly Mr. Farey 

 published in the last Number of' the Philosophical Magazine-. 

 By G. B. Greenough, Esq. 



To Mr. Tilloch. 



Sir, — An the last Number of your Magazine, Mr. Farey com- 

 plains with justice that a passage, extracted from his Agricultural 

 Report of Derbyshire, is, in a work which I have lately published, 

 ascribed, not to its real author, but to Mr. Hutchinson. I am 

 sorry for the error, and still more that, not being previously in- 

 formed of it, I have had no opportunity of cancelling till now the 

 leaf that contained it. To say that the error was unintentional, 

 is scarcely necessary. This must be obvious to every one who 

 does not consider me destitute of common sense as well as com- 

 mon honesty. 



That I ascribe to Mr. Hutchinson the words of Mr. Farey, is 

 however not mv only offence. I am accused of not ascribing to 

 Mr. Farey the discovery* of Mr. Hutchinson. I am accused also 

 of not (juoting books which I had not read. Both these charges, 

 like the former, are perfectly just. 



Your correspondent considers me, in common with many other 

 persons, actuated by feelings of hostility towards Mr. Smith. 

 Now mv feelings towards that gentleman are directly the reverse. 

 I respect him for the important services he has rendered to geo- 

 logy, and I esteem him for the example of dignit), meekness, 

 modesty, and candour, which he continuallv, though ineffectually, 

 exhibits to his self-appointed champion. 



In the work of Dr. Lister, entitled Histuria Animalivm An- 

 glice, is a passage which I have alluded but not referred to, " for 

 reasons," it is said, " best known to myself." Your Correspon- 

 dent has discovered this passage, notwithstanding all the pains 

 I took to conceal it, and, being in Latin, has got it translated 

 by a gentleman whom, with a proper sense of gratitude for the 

 service conferred upon this occasion, he characterizes as a learned 

 naturalist and kind friend. That he is a kind friend I readily 

 believe; for, not content with misconstruing the last clause in the 

 sentence, he does riot construe at all tlie words " at perpetuOy' 

 by far the most important of anv. as affecting the question at 

 issue. The (|ucstion is, whether Lister did or did not perceive a 

 connexion l)ctween the small belemnite and the bed wliicli con- 



• In your Ma^a/ine, vol. xlii. p. 107, Mr. Farcy, referring to the case of 

 faults deranging the strata l)ciieKth, but without a corresponding step or cliff 

 appearing on the surface, informs u.s that this fact was first pointed out by 

 Mr. John Hutchinson ; in your last Number he says " Mr. Greenough well 

 know.s that in IHOd I made the important discovery." 



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