366 How to take correct facsimiles of inscriptions. [April, 



To conclude, if Mr. Hodgson had preserved the amenities of fair 

 and amicable discussion, in his various depreciatory remarks, I should 

 have forborne, as hitherto, from calling special attention to certain of 

 his own very marked inconsistencies, to use the mildest expression ; 

 and should have even passed quietly over his appropriation of the 

 Tibetan Antelope (if it really prove new) : but in disregarding the rules 

 of courtesy towards me and others, he has invited a plain-spoken 

 rejoinder, which I have reluctantly felt myself compelled to issue 

 sine mord. 



P. S. It is due to Mr. Hodgson that I should here notice, and I 

 have unfeigned pleasure in doing so, that I have just received from 

 him a communication (dated March 24th,) in which he has, in the 

 most handsome manner, spontaneously tendered his regret, if, in the heat 

 of composition, he may have penned aught that I might consider as dis- 

 courteous ; and I rejoice that it is in my power to append this trait of 

 good feeling on Jiis part, which I am sure that he will have the gene- 

 rosity to exhibit further, should he haply think my reply at all acrimo- 

 nious, or written under excited feelings.* 



Instructions how to take Correct Facsimiles of Inscriptions, by Captain 

 Kittoe, 6tk N. I. 



To take correct facsimiles without reversing the writing which the 

 common method of damping and pressing the paper on tltem, or of 

 blackening the stone produces, the following method is recommended. 



Heat in a ladle, and mix, equal parts of spirits of turpentine, linseed 

 oil and bees wax, with sufficient red lead or ochre, ground as fine as 

 possible, and let it cool. Then rub this into fine Serampore or bazar 



* We regret that Mr. Blyth has deemed it necessary to couch his defence in terms of 

 asperity. As his opinions were impugned in a recent paper by Mr. Hodgson, he has an 

 undoubted right of rejoinder, for the tone of which he is of course responsible. But we 

 protest against the repetition of such jousting in the Journal, the high character and digni- 

 fied position of which are in no small measure attributable to the absence of every sem- 

 blance of personality from its pages ; a circumstance most honorable to the cultivators 

 of science in this country, and not easily paralleled in the history of any European Jour- 

 nal. Our contributors will, we feel assured, concur with us that this high character must 

 on no consideration be compromised.- -Editors. 



