Three memoirs on the development and structure of the teeth and epithelium : read at the ninth annual meeting of the British Association for the Encouragement of Science, held at Birmingham, in August, 1839 : with diagrams exhibited in illustration of them / by Alexander Nasmyth.

  • Nasmyth, Alexander, 1789-1849.
Date:
1842
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Credit: Three memoirs on the development and structure of the teeth and epithelium : read at the ninth annual meeting of the British Association for the Encouragement of Science, held at Birmingham, in August, 1839 : with diagrams exhibited in illustration of them / by Alexander Nasmyth. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    with the officers and Council, I have offered every facility and means of information in my power. In- stead, however, of any attempt at redress, the injury to myself has heen greatly aggravated, and the in- terests of the Association at large completely compro- mised, by the publication of what professes to be a faithful narrative of these, but which I am sorry to say is filled with misrepresentations, contains a letter in which there is an interpolated passage, and is drawn up in the most disin- genuous manner,—recourse being had to the double un- fairness of suppressing most important evidence in my favour, and producing at the same time, documents which have never before been seen by me, or formed any part of the transactions of the Council or its officers with me. As soon as a copy of this statement reached me, I proceeded to examine it, but found that it was quite im- possible to make any progress without information derived from the records of the Association, to which I was unable to get access. Such being the case, I resolved rather to wave my rights of publication than attempt to reply to a document of such a character, which resolution I urged on the Council without any satisfactory re- sult. Some correspondence ensued between us, and the following is the last letter I addressed to them through their Secretary, which never obtained a reply, or even the common courtesy of an acknowledgment. To Col. Sabine, General Secretary to the British Association for the Encouragement of Science. ] 3 A, George Street, Hanover Square, 3rd Dec. 1841. Sir, Your letter of the 30th ult. containing the resolution of the Council of the British Association, has surprised