288 Prof. Sedgwick's Reply to some Statements 



Oolitic Corals for the Palseontographical Society, but had no 

 immediate intention of touching the Palreozoic Corals. They 

 then said they were desirous of figuring my newly-published 

 Oolitic species, and asked whether the specimens would be sent 

 to them on application. I said there was great diflBculty about 

 sending specimens out of the collection, but that if they wanted 

 figures our artist should draw them in after-time if they liked, 

 and that I would myself superintend them carefully. They were 

 delighted with the suggestion, thanked me, pointed out all the 

 specimens I was to get drawn, and the number and size of the 

 figures, saying they would arrange, on their return, for Mr. 

 Bowerbank to pay the artist. It must be want of memory, there- 

 fore, that betrayed MM. Milne-Edwards and Haime into the 

 statement at the top of their page 150 : "We much regret not 

 having been able to obtain the same liberal aid from the Univer- 

 sity of Cambridge." Their lines farther on (top of page 151) are 

 also liable to misconception, at least ; as ordinary readers think 

 the paragraph an insinuation that I knew nothing of these new 

 corals till MM. Milne-Edwards and Haime asked for them, and 

 that I hastened with them into print on "their application being 

 rejected : " — the plain facts being, that these gentlemen were 

 attracted to Cambridge by my previously published descriptions 

 of those very corals ; that they had then made no application at 

 all ; that when they came they saw our artist finishing our plates; 

 that my part of the work was finished ; that I gave them every 

 information in my power*, though the Cambridge work was not 

 regularly published till after their departure. 



At the foot of the same page (151) MM. Milne-Edwards and 

 Haime mutilate a note of mine (at page 17 of the Cambridge 

 Pal. Foss.), and thus draw so false a conclusion that they seem 

 to have penned a wilful calumny. My note referred to is — "As 

 these pages were passing through the press I received MM. 

 Milne-Edwards and Haime's great English Memoir on Corals, 

 but at too late a period to profit materially from the new portions 

 not previously published in the Comptes Rendus." And yet JMM. 

 Milne-Edwards and Haime act as if the underlined, important, 

 portion had not been written. Their note is as follows : — 

 "This work (Cambridge Pal. Foss.) was published in May 1851, 

 some months after the first part of our Monographie des Poly- 

 piers des Terrains Palceozoiques, and at least a year after the 

 distribution of the first part of ovir ' Description of the British 

 Fossil Corals ' to all the members of the Palseontographical 

 Society. In the beginning of his book (p. 17) Professor M'Coy 



* Some of which (e. g. the existence of radiating lamella; in Michelin's 

 Dendropora) they published soon after in the Comptes Reiidus without 

 acknowledgement. 



