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the facts, and could have prevented all cause of ill feeling 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 publication 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, 1 might, perhaps, 

 have written somewhat differently, and should have noticed his investi- 

 gations. A paper embracing all this matter, as well as further investiga- 

 tions on the hinge structure of the Spiriferidse, 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. 



