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Professor Owen. Even the venerable Rudolph Wagner, whom no man will 
accuse of progressionist proclivities, has raised his voice on the same side; while 
not a single anatomist, great or small, has supported Professor Owen. 
“Now, Ido not mean to suggest that scientific differences should be settled 
by universal suffrage, but I do conceive that solid proofs must be met by some- 
thing more than empty and unsupported assertions. Yet during the two years 
through which this preposterons controversy has dragged its weary length, 
Professor Owen has not ventured to bring forward a single preparation in sup- 
port of his often-repeated assertions. 
“The case stands thus, therefore :—Not only are the statements made by me 
in consonance with the doctrines of the best older authorities, and with those of 
all recent investigators, but I am quite ready to demonstrate them on the first 
monkey that comes to hand ; while Professor Owen’s assertions are not only in 
diametrical opposition to both old and new authorities, but he has not produced, 
and, I will add, cannot produce, a single preparation which justifies them.” 
I now leave this subject, for the present—For the credit of my calling I 
should be glad to be, hereafter, for ever silent ‘upon it. But, unfortunately, this 
is a matter upon which, after all that has occurred, no mistake or confusion of 
terms is possible—and in affirming that the posterior lobe, the posterior cornu, 
and the hippocampus minor exist in certain Apes, I am stating either that which 
is true; or that which I must know to be false. The question has thus become 
one of personal veracity. For myself, I will accept no other issue than this, 
grave as it is, to the present controversy. 
