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not say that is impossible, but he can say that there are no nine instru- 
ments of the “largest class” known to Mr. Tolles that Dr. Hagen could 
tenable " is, to use his own expression, **quite comical.^ Dr. Barnard had 
reported that **it was to be regretted that the American makers did not 
send" stands to the exhibition; for the want of them the objectives were 
not properly examined. Dr. Hagen twists this round in thís way. ‘‘ The 
same objectives are frequently used here with English stands and occu- 
lars, plenty of which were to be had in Paris. If, then, they did not 
prove themselves successful the reason must be that they did not attain 
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Hagen. A recent letter from Dr. Barnard recites the whole story. He 
says: **In regard to what Dr. Hagen says of my report, he so singularly 
misunderstands me, or so wilfully misrepresents that it seems hardl 
necessary to reply to him. I never said or intimated that a Tolles’ stand 
was necessary to develop a Tolles’ objective, but only that a stand o 
some kind was necessary, a proposition which I think stands to reason. 
The disadvantage could not appear until the jury, instead of examining 
e glasses, country by country, as I supposed they would, using Crea 
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ness of the protracted examination, with the extreme heat of the crowded 
room, made the jury impatient, Ae notwithstanding the compliment Dr. 
a me as an “adept,” I was not smart enough to secure, on that 
occasion, wind I thought a fair trial of the glasses — by which expression 
mean not a fair development of their powers, but a fair attention to the 
development. never got the whole jury to examine the glasses thoroughly. 
After I had obtained from Mr. Beck a stand, Dr. Brooke of London, made 
the fullest trial with them which I could secure from any member, and he 
expressed himself — though he has the natural national leaning 
of an Englishman. ould have been ridiculous for me to narrate all 
y report, but Ur i absurd for any one to interpret what I do say 
