GENUS SPIRIFERA. 257 



"ever makes no allusion to my investigations, of whicli he certainly was not 

 " ignorant." 



Now Mr. Meek saw by the publication that it was not a paper pre- 

 sented by me to the Society, but an extract from a volume printed and not 

 published. It may have been quite disingenuous on his part to cite it as a 

 "paper" presented in the usual manner, and he aflfects to believe that I 

 was not ignorant of his investigations, etc. I have stated above simply the 

 facts. The Journal of Science professes to deal fairly and justly in all 

 scientific matters, and one of its editors was in possession of all the facts, 

 and could have prevented all cause of ill feelicg on the part of any one. I 

 have only to say that my investigations, as they stand in print, had been 

 made long before, and were in print before the time mentioned by Mr. 

 Meek as the publication of his paper. Moreover, I had not at the publi- 

 cation of my own observations, nor have I to the date of this writing, ever 

 seen Mr. Meek's paper, nor do I know more of it than has appeared in 

 the American Journal of Science. Had I been writing on this subject 

 after the publication of his paper, I might, perhaps, have written some- 

 what differently, and should have noticed his investigations. A paper 

 embracing all this matter, as well as further investigations on the hinge 

 structure of the Spiriferidae, was communicated to the Nineteenth Report 

 on the State Cabinet; but the Appendices of that Report have never been 

 printed, and the accumulation of matter for the Twentieth Report has 

 been so great that it has been impossible to procure the illustrations, and 

 the paper is still further postponed. 



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