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TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



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T would be an unpleasant, as well as a difficult task, for me 

 to state the rerrons which may at any time requiie me, as 

 Editor of the Philosophical Journal, to decline insertmg some 

 of the papers which may be sent to me. It is obvious that a 

 variety of very proper inducements may offer themselves to 

 govern my conduct in that respect, which it would answer no 

 useful purpose to detail. My Correspondent? have accord- 

 ingly, in almost every instance, received this information in 

 private, where it has been required ; but, for the most part, I 

 have been allowed to excuse my discretion without enquiry. 

 Among a few papers which remain with me, and are not in- 

 tended for insertion, one from H. B. K. has been the subject 

 of enquiry and remonstrance from the writer. As he is un- 

 known, I have no other than the present channel to say, that 

 his Paper will be returned to the bearer of an order, in the 

 same hand writing ; and as he complains of a want of justice 

 in its not having been inserted, T must remark, that though 

 his discussions appeared to me to have become too extensive 

 for monthly insertion, I should, nevertheless, kave admitted 

 that paper, if I had not thought tliat the spirit of controversy 

 between him.elf and Mr. Sylvester was becoming too personal 

 to be interesting to the readers of this Journal. 



I cannot at present answer the enquiries of R. P. respect- 

 ing the application of muriatic acid to promote vegetation ; 

 but 1 will satisfy myself whether the alledged facts on that 

 behalf may be entitled to attention. 



Errata in Dr. Bostock's Paper on Palm Oil 



"'Page 163, 1. 5, for alexginons, read oleaginous. 



1. 9, for flaf^he.s, read fiaki;s. 



1. 13, (flcr "in" in::eit " l.hc." 



Page 164, 1. 3, from bottom, /br resin, read resins. 



Page 1 66. I. 17, from bottoir;, for 52 gs. read .52 gr. 



1. 15, from bottom, for l-8th gr. read .8 gr. 



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