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ience in reference to an answer which I had sent to a previous Memorial from that society.
2. This reference to the subject may appear somewhat late, but I confess that my original intention was not to notice that correspondence or the statements subsequently advanced by Members of the Association in their interview with Your Lordship on the 9th February, because their assertions appeared so palpably incorrect and their arguments so devoid of any subject in all its details, and who resides on the spot where a novel and exceptional experiment, like that under discussion, is being carried out, becomes too apt from his own propinquity to the best sources of information to misapprehend the great difficulties of others less favorably situated. He does not find it easy to realize the burden of detecting at a distance the inaccuracy of statements positively advanced when no one is at hand with the information to refute them. There is also difficulty in leaving my reply to their first Memorial practically untouched.
3. It has, however, been since impressed on me that a person like myself, whose attention has been much occupied with a necessary appartioning correctly in such cases the relative weight, which facts bear to the whole argument, even if admitted...