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others his paper on Wood Pavement ; that the quotations of Mr. 

 Hope's experiments were made from an abstract of his paper in the 

 Practical Mechanics' and Engineers' Journal, which were marked for 

 him to copy, and proceeds thus : — " I can further bear witness to 

 the fact, that Mr. Smith was anxious to acknowledge that quotation, 

 having given me instructions to be particular about it ; and in my 

 anxiety to carry out his wishes I did personally alter the pronoun 

 ' r into ' Mr. Hope,' and in other instances changed the sense of the 

 first person." 



2. A letter from the Hon. N. Guthridge, M.L.C., stating that Mr. 

 Smith's paper, complete, I think, as far as the end of the third part, 

 was in his hands in the month of February, prior to its being read 

 before the Philosophical Institute. 



3. A letter from Mr. Smith himself, stating that after the paper 

 was in the hands of Mr. Guthridge, he had a conversation with Mr. 

 E. Snell, Engineer-in-Chief to the Melbourne and Geelong Piailway, 

 on the subject, and that during the conversation Mr. Hope came in, 

 and Mr. Smith, addressing him, said, he had been quoting from a 

 namesake of his (Mr. Hope's) on the subject of wood pavement, 

 whereon Mr. Hope said, that he himself was the person in question. 



To verify the statement of Mr. Smith, we wrote to Mr. Hope and 

 to Mr. Snell, but have received no answer from either of these gen- 

 tlemen, but : — 



4. In a letter dated April 10th, 1857, and published in the Argus 

 of April 12th, Mr. Snell thus writes : — 



" About four months ago, they (Messrs. Hope and Smith) had a 

 conversation in my presence on wood pavement, in which Mr. 

 Smith announced his intention of quoting Mr. Hope's experiments, 

 to which I don't think Mr. Hope at the time made any objection." 



5. On the 6th of April, 1857, an article appeared in the Argus, 

 praising Mr. Smith's paper ; on the 7th, he (Mr. Smith) wrote a 

 letter addressed to the Editor of the Argus, both the rough and the 

 fair copy of which are before us, in which the following words 

 occur : — " The experiments made by Mr. D. Hope (now in Melbourne, 

 and late of the firm of Hope, Mackenzie, and Co., contractors) which 

 I give in extenso from an abstract of a paper read by him to the 

 Scottish Society of Arts, and communicated by him to the Practical 

 Mechanics' and Engineers' Magazine. 



6. A letter from Mr. William B. Downe, of 10 A'Beckett-street, 

 accompanying the rough copy above alluded to, and saying :, — "I 

 beg to certify that the enclosed is the document prepared by Mr. A. 

 K. Smith on the 7 th April last, and handed me to copy. Mr. 

 Smith stated the reason why the letter was not sent to the paper 

 for publication. 



The reason, doubtless, was the appearance, on April 8th, of the 

 article headed " Stop Thief." 

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