388 Mr. Couthouy’s Reply to Mr. Dana. 
accuses me of having done this, besides freely submitting to him 
all my notes on the geology of Hawaii, made during a resi- 
dence of nearly six months, I placed in his hands a set of over 
four hundred specimens, forming a complete suite of all the for- 
mations in the group, from its northwestern to its southeastern 
extremity, illustrative of the facts noted, and collected along the 
whole course of journies over more than three hundred and fifty 
miles, with great care and labor, and in some instances at no 
slight peril to life and limb. | 
I have hastily drawn up this preliminary defence with feelings 
akin to those excited by a first perusal of the charge, not more in 
anger than in sorrow. I confess that after the peculiar intimacy 
which subsisted between us during the whole of our connection 
in the Expedition, after the warm expressions of regard and in- 
debtedness on his part at the time of our separation, I was wholly 
unprepared for his adopting so violent a course, without a word of 
remonstrance or request for explanation. Had he proffered either, 
in lieu of assailing me unawares, while I was not present to de- 
fend myself, and leaving me to arrive at a knowledge of the fact 
by mere accident, I could readily have proved to him that he was 
under an erroneous impression, have spared much pain to one, and 
I cannot but hope to both of us, and prevented an act of great 
injustice, which he will hereafter regret no less than myself. 
That he saw fit to proceed as he has done, must ever be to me 
a source of deep regret—but this cannot be recalled. In self de- 
fence, I am compelled to prove, that Mr. Dana is virtually a tra- 
ducer, or become myself an object of scorn to all true men. I 
am content to abide the issue. ‘The grounds of my defence are 
now before your readers. It only remains for me to assure those 
friends to whom the charges not herein fully disproved, have 
given pain, that if at the next meeting of the Association before 
which they were originally preferred, I fail to prove their entire 
groundlessness, I will consent not only to forfeit that esteem 
which is dearer than life, but to be branded with the full igno- 
miny which should justly attach to conduct so unworthy as 
they attribute to me. 
Statement of Mr. Couthouy in relation to Prof. H. D. Rogers. 
Permit me before concluding, to correct an erroneous state- 
ment in the proceedings of the Association in Boston, published — 
