302 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
8. Dr. Cooper's reply to Gov, Stevens’s charge of Plagiarism in vol. xxx, 
p. 302.— We have received a long letter from Dr. Cooper dated at San 
Francisco, Nov. 20, 1860, in which he reviews the charges of Gov. Ste- 
vens with more detail than the public interest in the controversy warrants, 
or than our space can admit. 
Dr. Cooper’s manly explanation of the origin of Gov. Stevens’s com- 
plaints which we give below, and the laudable spirit which characterizes 
is communication, at once relieves this gentleman from any suspicion of 
intentional injustice to Gov. Stevens, and renders the publication of other 
details needless. 
was printed, had prevented his giving credit to Gov.S. for the authorship 
or the Chapter on Meteorology.” 
question of the propriety of his making farther acknowledgments or con 
<essions ”—we have only to say, while we believe that Gov. Stevens ‘0 
parties had the general title page of the “Contributions to the Natura 
History of Washington Territory,” stated in substance *‘ that these obser- 
vations were made in connection with the Expedition to survey i 
for a Pacific Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacifie Ocean near 
the 47th and 49th parallels of N, latitude, under command of Gov. ll 
vens, Q 
1860) that he has received from Dr. A. Cobb, of Montague, Mass., Mes 
cimens, which appeared to be some kind of slag, more or Jess Moat 
looking 
externally somewhat like branched coral; the branches nearly an mee 
diameter and flattened. In short, it was obviously fine sand which ba 
been fused by heat on the inside of the mas as 
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Massachusetts, on what eine supposed to be an old Indian camping : 
about noon from a cloudless sky—one of them weighing about 37 pou™ 
has reached this country as a wife from Rev, H. S Taylor to whom "2 
