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subject, and pithily given surely suffi- 
cient reasons for no longer persecuting 
an unoffending naturalist, we never ex- 
pected to bear more on the subject, 
and were much surprised to receive 
a long letter from Mr. Maw, with a 
printed circular, stating that a Com- 
mittee had been formed effectually to 
carry out the testimonial scheme — a 
Committee consisting entirely of resi- 
dents in the Midland Counties. 
A Committee for carrying out a 
scheme of conferring honour on Edward 
Newman ought surely to have had a 
. different constitution from this. Presi- 
dents and Vice-Presidents of the Lin- 
nean. Zoological and Entomological 
Societies ought to have formed the 
nucleus, if the thing was to be done. 
Fancy three crossing-sweepers in the 
Strand forming themselves into a Com- 
mittee, in order to present a testimonial 
to Lord Derby for his defence of the 
privileges of the House of Lords. 
Would Lord Derby thank them for 
their kind intentions? 
To the letter and circular of the 
Committee we replied in general terms 
by our leading article of the 14th of 
April. We there hinted that it was 
possible the idea of the testimonial 
might have originated with some sup- 
porter of the opposition journal, ‘ The 
Naturalist,’ who, with the view of an- 
noying, galling and irritating the editor 
of the ‘ Zoologist,’ had conceived this 
scheme for covering him with ridfculc. 
The obtuse intellect of the Midland 
Counties is slow at taking a hint, and 
we are rather diverted to find how 
egregiouslv it has misunderstood this 
passage. We now drop the subject in 
toto. 
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