Ivi INTRODUCTION. 



with blood-discs, which were pressed together into polyhedrons, 

 and apparently stagnated and left out of the current of circu- 

 lation. 



These aggregated blood-discs exhibited, in various and often 



" The Council have since thought proper to request the Committee, to whom they have added 

 the President (a) and Vice Presidents (6) of the Geological Section of the Association at 

 Birmingham, to inquire into the authority supposed to be given to Mr. Nasmyth's abstract by 

 a printed document, in the shape of a printer's revise, purporting to be the report, by the 

 Editorial Secretary, Dr. Lloyd, of another paper of Mr. Nasmyth's read to the Geological 

 Section, at the same meeting of the Association, which revise, he alleges, contains the following 

 passage, viz., ' the ivory is neither more nor less than the ossified pulp,' and on which he founds an 

 argument that an affirmation to that effect had been distinctly made by himself in that 

 paper. 



" The present Committee, to whom this question has been specially referred, have procured, 

 through the kindness of Colonel Sabine, one of the General Secretaries, a certified copy (c) of 

 the original manuscript report referred to by Mr. Nasmyth, and which it appears was drawn up 

 immediately after the paper had been received, by Dr. Lloyd, one of the Secretaries of the 

 Geological Section. It is as follows :" 



"(It is the subjoined document marked B.)" 



" On comparing this manuscript copy with the printed revise, as quoted by Mr. Nasmyth 

 at p. 3 of his printed letter to the Council, it appears that several alterations have been made in 

 the original in its progress to that stage of revision in which Mr. Nasmyth now produces it ; 

 and in particular, that the expression quoted by him in italics, as especially corroborating the 

 fidelity of his abstract, is not contained in it." 



This needs no comment : it is here cited along with Mr. Nasmyth's assertion to the French 

 Institute, that Schwann's Treatise was unknown to him when he read his Memoir at 

 Birmingham, and with the statements which he hazarded in print, that he did not furnish the 

 Report to the Literary Gazette, and that the Report in the Athenaeum had been so mutilated that 

 he could not be responsible for it, in order to show the value of that person's subsequent 

 assertions on other points relating to the present work.(.rf) 



(a) Dr. Buckland. C^) Leonard Horner, Esq., Charles Lyell, Esq. 



(c) " A copy, certified by Dr. Lloyd, of the rough copy preserved by himself of the original 

 manuscript." 



(d) For the refutation of these assertions see Medical Gazette, July, 1S40. 



