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the animal like a large goat, teeth 
short & thick of a white color, swel- 
led behind. Remarks . — The roots 
are as long as the teeth, and about 
half inch long. Part of the jaw ful- 
vous, smooth outside with a wide 
transversal depression, cellular in- 
side cells unequal. All in fine pre- 
servation. 
The geological locality of these 
teeth indicates that they were 
brought there either by the animal 
itself or by diluvial agency (or an 
early overflowing of the creek close 
by), but since covered and partly 
incrusted by the recent limy exuda- 
tion or crust of the floor and sides. 
They are by no means coeval with 
the old limestone strata. 
9. Remarks on the Monthly Jour- 
nal of Geology and Natural Sci- 
ence of Gr. TV. Feather stonaugJi, 
for May 1832, ( [but only published 
in July.) 
We regret to be compelled to no- 
tice the article in that Stereotyped 
Journal , which under the garb of a 
Review of two of our labors, is from 
beginning to end a jumble of scurili- 
ty and a public attempt to injure us. 
— This article is a disgrace to the 
writer, and the Journal, where it is 
found, as we verily believe nothing 
half so spiteful and disgraceful was 
ever before Stereotyped here or any 
where else. 
It would be beneath the dignity of 
Science to imitate the example thus 
given us. Our purpose, which is 
merely to defend ourselves from a 
wanton and unjust attack, will be 
fully attained by a simple exposition 
of facts connected with that Journal, 
the editor of it and his sleeping part- 
ner Dr. Harlan. The public shall 
easily discriminate between the plain 
truth, and their farrago of envy and 
spite. 
In April 1831, Dr. Harlan, who 
was then my friend, and whom I es- 
teemed as a cultivator of some branch- 
es of Zoology, introduced me to Mr. 
Featherstonaugh at his own request, 
while lecturing here on English Ge- 
ology. I was invited to attend his 
lectures, but went to very few, when 
I found that he had nothing new to 
present to the public, and was a 
mere echo of the local English Geo- 
logists, of whom we have so many 
works, that lectures are useless to 
teach their doctrines. 
Soon after, Mr. F. undertook to 
publish a Journal of Geology, and 
offered me through Dr. H.to become 
a collaborator, stating that he would 
give a compensation for every page 
written for his Journal: to which I 
assented, although afterwards he 
changed his mind and pretended he 
could not afford any pay to writers. 
One of the objects of this Journal 
w^as stated to be by Dr. H., to op- 
pose or expose the blunders of Prof. 
Silliman’s Journal of Science, and 
of Prof. Eaton. I could not then 
receive any satisfactory explanation 
of this hostility of Mr. F. against 
them, but I have since learned in the 
North, that it is owing to Prof. Sil- 
liman having refused to puff Mr. F. 
and admit into the American Jour- 
nal, his lucubrations on English Ge- 
ology, already so well known, as he 
had nothing to offer on American 
Geology. Respecting Prof. Eaton, 
who has long been a friend of mine, 
(and whom I esteen, although he be- 
longs to the old schools), I learnt 
from himself that Mr. F. was his 
bitter Foe, ever since something had 
occurred at Albany to defeat his ap- 
plication to be employed by the 
State for a new Geological Survey, 
because Prof. Eaton had already 
made one. 
Many of my Geological and other 
Essays, having been seen by Mr. F. 
he highly approved of them at first, 
particularly my Geology of Ken- 
tucky, with drawings, and selected 
them for his Journal. But after- 
wards, when he found them clashing 
with his own English System, he did 
not publish them, and I had some 
difficulty to get them again. Out of 
six Essays put in his hands he has 
