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MR. BARLOW’S ANSWER TO MR. MAYHEW. 
Towards the close of his “ letter,” the author proceeds to adduce 
three sentences, purporting to be quotations from my paper, which 
he says “ would warrant the notion being entertained” that I “ might 
have remained content, and continued silent.” I am sorry to say 
that I consider his “ notion” ill-founded ; for it will be seen that 
two of the three quotations upon which he grounds it are garbled, 
and, I fear, will assist neither in making out his case, nor in proving 
the correctness of his “ notion.” The quotation which is given 
correctly will be found to be used by me with special reference to 
only a part, and not to the whole of his paper, as his way of quot- 
ing it may seem to imply. 
In conclusion, I assure the author of the “ letter” that I am not 
“ offended” because he has not supported his “ opinions by more 
facts.” Far from it. The “ opinions” are already, and have been 
for long, “ supported” by abundance of facts ; and if Mr. Mayhew 
ever does me the honour of becoming my “ pupil,” I can shew him 
as many “ facts” as he pleases in the shape of cases . If he has 
but seen one case in point, and has built his statements on it, I am, 
as before stated, much more disposed to pity, than to be “ hurt” or 
“offended.” I have not any right to blame him for his poverty in 
this respect, or for having had the mere opportunity of seeing only 
one instead of a “ multiplicity of cases :” if I then am rich, it is as 
cruel for me to “ sneer” at the poor, as it is “ unkind for the learned 
to sneer at the ignorant.” I entreat Mr. Mayhew to believe that the 
“ kindly feeling” which I entertain on his behalf “ precludes the 
possibility” of my being either “hurt” or “offended” with him, 
whatever may be his “ hasty words,” or whatever may be our dif- 
ferences of opinion as to his right of claim for originality in anato- 
mical discovery. I cannot conceive him so ungrateful as not to 
reciprocate this “feeling;” and I give the assurance that the most 
welcome return he could make to him who entertains it, would 
consist in “ answering his assertions,” and in “ replying fully to 
his statements.” 
I am, Gentlemen, 
Your’s sincerely, 
John Barlow, Y. S. 
Edinburgh Veterinary College. 
