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LIII. — Latest Observations on Eozoon canadense b^ 

 Prof. Max Schultze. 



7'o the Editors of the Annals and Mayazine of Natural History. 



2 Hume Street, Dublin. 



Gentlemen, April 15th, 1874. 



I have been requested to allow some extracts from letters 

 received by me from my late much-lamented teacher Professor 

 Max Schultze to be publislied, as bearing upon a subject which 

 has lately been discussed in the 'Annals.' Perhaps if you 

 will kindly publish these few remarks they may serve to 

 throw some light upon the latest views entertained by that 

 great authority on Eozoon canadense. 



I have made no observations myself on Eozoon^ and am in 

 no way personally interested in the debate which is now 

 going on as regards its true nature. The letters from which 

 I translate extracts, as nearly verhatim as possible, were re- 

 quests to me to procure for Professor Schultze some speci- 

 mens of the stones from Drs. King and Rowney, from the 

 examination of which they had drawn their conclusions as 

 printed in the ' Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy ' 

 for July 1869, which I had sent to him at his request a few 

 days before the date of the letter which I now translate almost 

 in full. 



."Boun, the 27th Dec. 1873." 



" Dear Friend, — I have received Drs. King and Rowney's 

 paper, and have to thank you most heartily for obtaining it for 

 me so soon. Having read it, you must now let me trouble you 

 again with another request. These gentlemen, with Avhom I 

 agree on many important points, supported by my own inves- 

 tigations on Eozoon canadense^ and whose treatise has made a 

 very great impression upon me, would no doubt do me the kind- 

 ness to let me have some specimens of the stones which they 

 characterize as especially important, which it is very difficult for 

 me to procure, [t will give you but little trouble to acquaint 

 them with the fact that I am engaged in the study of Eozoon^ 

 and am most desirous to obtain some pieces of ' Connemara 

 opliites ' and other ophites which I cannot procure in Germany. 

 Perhaps you would undertake this for me, dear friend, and 

 forward me the specimens as soon as possible by ' Parcel De- 

 livery ' or any other way known to you. 



" Tell lilessrs. King and Rowney that, with respect to the 

 ' proper wall ' of Cai-penter, I am entirely of their opinion, 

 that it is of inorganic origin, but would like to push my inves- 



