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sary Address, for I presume you will allow me to 
infer from internal evidence that it is yours, and 
I thank you sincerely for the very handsome and 
cordial manner in which you have spoken of my 
two works, the “ Principles” and “ Elementary’ 
(or Manual), and the able analysis which you have 
given of their contents. 
‘ Such praise will tell the more in their favour 
when seen to come from a critic, who is clearly 
no flatterer of the writer, but one who is as com- 
petent as he is determined to exercise an indepen- 
dent judgment on his writings and opinions. . . .’ 
[Lyell then devotes the remaining nine quarto 
pages of this letter to a defence of his views, and 
concludes :] ‘ I shall only add that I rejoice to see 
this subject freely discussed, and forty pages of the 
“ Quarterly” filled with original and most valuable 
lessons in palaeontology. By your liberal praise of 
my two treatises you will hasten the time when I 
shall be called upon to reprint them. When I do so 
I shall try and weigh your arguments impartially 
and dispassionately.’ 
In the November of this year Owen wrote 
another article for the same Review, containing a 
list of his chief books and papers, and a short sum- 
mary of the more important. ‘ It had been pro- 
posed,’ Owen writes, ‘ for Broderip to do it, but I 
found it would be easier and perhaps clearer if I 
did it myself The list astonishes me ! I wonder 
how Lockhart will manage, for it is already con- 
