98 MR. GULLIVER ON THE BLOOD-CoRPUSCLES. [Feb. 10, 
declaration that “This generalization has not been affected by later 
observations.” 
He does not scruple to borrow without acknowledgment from my 
Tables of Measurements (Comp. An. ii. 184); though hinting more 
than once that they are “insignificant ’’ or ‘‘ unimportant,” and this 
under cover of references to the French translation of them by 
Milne- Edwards and not to my own original version. 
Indeed, to this illustrious physiologist Prof. Owen refers on this 
question, as both Milne-Edwards and his son Alphonse Milne- 
Edwards have been moved to make the emphatic assertion that the 
minuteness of the blood-disks of Tragulus was discovered by Prof. 
Owen. But this is a misstatement, as the very reference made in its 
behalf, to the ‘London Medical Gazette,’ 1839-40, will prove. A 
careful search throughout those volumes, not excepting the curious 
zoologico-anthropological characteristics in the ‘ Extra Limites,” 
vol. ii. p. 671*, will fail to find mention of more than a single Tra- 
gulus ; and that occurs, with his first notice of the blood of Camels, 
in the number for December 20, 1839: all the few measurements in 
that paper were by Mr. Bowerbank ; and “ Moschus pygmeus’’ is the 
only Tragulus mentioned therein. 
But, as Prof. Owen has long since well known, my observations 
on the minuteness of the blood-disks of Tragulus, on the shape 
and size of those of certain Camels, and on their structure in this 
whole family, were read, as before said, at a meeting of the Medico- 
Chirargical Society on the 26th of November previously, published 
in the 23rd volume of the Transactions of that Society, and, with 
my description of the same corpuscles of Marsupials, in the ‘ Dublin 
Medical Press’ of November 27, in the ‘London and Edinburgh 
Philosophical Magazine’ of December 1, all of the same year, and in 
several other periodical works either of the first day of December, 
or at least before the date of Prof. Owen’s paper. And of his ac- 
quaintance with my paper that had been read at the Medico-Chi- 
rurgical Society on the 26th of November, he has left published 
proof in a footnote to his own paper of the succeeding 20th of 
December, in which he quotes mine of the preceding 26th of No- 
vember as to the lymph-globules of Tragu/us and the Camels, but 
omits any notice of my description therein of the blood-disks of those 
animals ; only he says that the minuteness of the blood-disks of Mos- 
chus pygmeus is such as he “had anticipated ;” and so, no doubt, 
he had, with my published proof of that minuteness before him. 
In the foregoing notices an attempt has been made to assert the truth 
respecting a branch of physiological history to which the best part 
of my life has been devoted. Should it be supposed that I have now 
been influenced only by considerations personal to myself, I can but 
truly deny the imputation, and refer in proof to my published 
writings, im which quite as much zeal has been shown in defending 
the rights of Davies, Hewson, and others from unjust aggression as I 
have here exercised in behalf of my own just claims. Had private 
persons been the authors of the errors now corrected, they might 
have passed, like several similar ones, without notice ; but Professor 
