Paper on Wood Pavement. xiii 



The whole of the division, " Practical Experiments," consists of one 

 series of experiments, to which Mr. Smith refers as Mr. Hope's, and 

 which is quoted almost verbatim from the paper in the Practical 

 Mechanics' and Engineers' Magazine. This we have compared with the 

 paper communicated to the Edinburgh Philosophical Journal, and 

 find them identical. 



The whole quotation (altered as stated by Mr. Donaldson) occu- 

 pies about 150 lines, one-third of the printed paper, and forms the 

 whole of division third. 



No quotations from Mr. Hope occur in any other part of the 

 paper. 



On this we may remark, that Mr. Hope's experiments having been 

 pubUshed in three journals, viz., the Practical Mechanics' and En- 

 gineers' Magazine, Jamieson's Edinburgh Philosophical Journal, and 

 the Transactions of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts, were public 

 property, at the disposal of any one for quotation, with the view of 

 inferring results from them. Mr. Smith seems to us to have quoted 

 them thus, leaving out any collateral evidence. Mr. Smith dis- 

 tinctly states, on making his quotation, that, so far as he knows, no 

 experiments have been made in Victoria, and therefore refers to Mr. 

 Hope's experiments, and quotes them in such a manner as shows that 

 they are one series, by one person. 



3. As some stress has been laid on the fact, that a small part of 

 the extract is marked in inverted commas, and that the major part is 

 not so marked, we have to state that no inverted commas at all ap- 

 pear in the manuscript, and that Mr. Smith states that no authority 

 was given by him to the printer for their introduction. 



From the consideration of these points we conclude that, to any 

 one reading the paper carefully, there is sufficient internal evidence 

 of the acknowledgment of the experiments quoted, but we consider 

 that Mr. Smith is blameable for negligence in allowing the paper to 

 be printed without his personal revision, and in introducing, among 

 the results of Mr. Hope's experiments, several quotations, amounting 

 together to about forty lines, containing statements of opinion by 

 Mr. Hope, which, not being results of his experiments were liable 

 to be attributed to Mr. Smith, and while accpiitting him of any in- 

 tention to appropriate Mr. Hope's labours, we the more regret and 

 condemn his negligence, inasmuch as the very alterations introduced 

 by the amanuensis, in consequence of Mr. Smith's anxiety and direc- 

 tion that the experiments should be acknowledged as Mr. Hope's, 

 make those general statements of opinion appear to be Mr. Smith's. 

 W. P. Wilson, M.A., F.C.P.S., Professor of Mathe- 

 matics in the University of Melbourne. 

 M. H. Irving, M.A., Professor of Classics in the 



University of Melbourne. 

 John Macadam, M.D., Lecturer on Natural Science 

 in the Scotch College, Melbourne. 



