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Prof. Swallow to take them up, and that Prof. S. had done so and arrived at 



the conclusion, without any previous knowledge of my views, that they 

 must be Permian. 



The foregoing statement is made not with the intention of impugning the 

 motives of others, but to vindicate myself and Dr. Hayden from the suspicion 

 of having appropriated the views, or unwarrantably used the facts of others. 



F. B. MEEK. 



