104 J. D. Dana—Notice of Hunt's Essays. 
Now, if the facts respecting the pseudomorphs were facts, it 
would still require great constructive powers to make out from the 
and also 5th edit., p. 361). Now, by this substitution process, the 
above mentioned metamorphosis would consist (swpposing fact No. 
be may be si 
materials of the granite by a process of solution, and the cotem- 
raneous or subsequent substitution of calcite! 
ll will admit that the use of facts and not-facts exhibited in 
the above charge is most extraordinary; and can judge from it, 
and from other like cases stated, of Mr. Hunt’s ability to apprect- 
ate, or do justice to, the views of others.” 
During the past year he has repeated anew his assertions, in 
a note before the Boston Natural History Society ;* and to this 
I gave a brief denial in the last volume of this Journal on pages 
221, 222. 
Among the various other persons persistently misrepresented 
by him, no one has been more grossly so than the late Dr. 
Naumann. Mr. Hunt claimed in his Address that Naumann 
agreed with him in his doctrine that pseudomorphism in the 
case of certain silicates was simply “envelopment.” I showed, 
which the following is a translation: 
Dresden, November 17, 1872. 
* Proceedings for 1874, p. 334. 
