420 Mr. R. Phillips's Letter to Dr. D. Boswell Reid. 



LVII. A Letter to David Boswell Reid, M.D. F.R.S.E. 4r. 

 Bt/ Richard Phillips, F.R.S.L,SfE. 8fc. 



Sir, 



IN order that the reader may be acquainted with the cir- 

 cumstances which occasion this letter to you, it is requisite 

 to mention that I published a criticism upon your "Elements 

 of Practical Chemistry" in the eighth volume of the Philoso- 

 phical Magazine and Aimals of Philosophy. To this you replied 

 in a pamphlet intitled "An Exposure of the Misrepresentations 

 in the Philosophical Magazine and Annals," ike, which I an- 

 swered in a Letter to you; and this was followed by your 

 rejoinder, called " An Exposure of the continued Misrepre- 

 sentations, &c." I shall refer to your first pamphlet as the 

 *' Exposure," and to your second as the " Continuation." 

 Before, however, I proceed any further, I beg leave to 



offer 



