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gentleman who is over that part of the office in Red Lion Court which 

 is more especially appropriated to the periodicals there published, 

 and that neither of them has any recollection of having ever received 

 the paper upon Saxifrages from Mr. Andrews, although they do re- 

 member receiving a letter asking them to return such a paper, and 

 also of having answered it, by denying their having the paper." I 

 am authorised, also, to add, in their words, that " the paper would 

 have been inserted if it had reached their hands." I must also direct 

 attention to the fact that Mr. Watson had plenty of time to withdraw 

 that incorrect charge against the Annals, between the 9th or 10th of 

 April (when he doubtless received my letter) and the time of publica- 

 tion of the May number of the ' Phytologist' Even supposing, as is 

 most improbable, that the first sheet of that number was printed off 

 before he had the means of making the correction, he was bound to 

 do so on the second sheet, or on the cover. A letter giving similar 

 information was addressed to the editor of the ' Phytologist,' for the 

 information of " C", on the 7th of April; and as Mr. Lees' paper, 

 which is printed upon the same sheet as Mr. Watson's, is dated upon 

 that day, it is indisputable that the refutation was in the editor's 

 hands long before the sheet containing the charge was printed off. 



I am stated to have been present when Mr. Andrews' paper was 

 read, which I fully believe was not the case. No notice, as far as I 

 can find out, was given in the Journal of the Sectional Proceedings, 

 of the intention to read such a paper ; and as I was fully occupied 

 with the important duties of the Treasurership during the whole of 

 that meeting, I was unable to attend the section with any regularity. 

 I was in the chair during the session of one day, and present during 

 part of another day, but, I believe, absent on the other days. Even 

 had I been present, I could only have congratulated Mr. Andrews 

 upon his discovery, but objected to his conclusions concerning spe- 

 cies. I now learn from the ' Athenaeum,' that his was the last paper 

 read to the section. 



I avoid all notice of the personal, or, as Mr. Watson calls them, 

 ethical, matters contained in the paper, as a scientific journal is not 

 the place for giving or retorting insinuations of a want of the " sense 

 of truth and right." 



It is only necessary to add, that I do " make it my duty and desire 

 to know something about" papers which "refute, by facts, any con- 

 siderable error that has been sent into public circulation by myself;" 

 and that if Mr. Watson did not see by my former remarks, that I 

 could not know anything [of] a paper of the locality of which I and 



