of such a result. Had I been as well aware as I now am of your feelings in this affair and of your view of facts, I should have framed those remarks very differently in my address at Boston, & now regret that I did not show them to you before they were uttered. But my object was chronological statement & historical justice & I intended to give you the decided prominence which you deserve. It so happened indeed that the specimens sent by D^r. Deane & at my suggestion were those which produced conviction, but not improbably your previous sendings would have been successful had they arrived as D^r. Deane’s did in conjunction with the bones of the Dinornis.

I exceedingly regret this painful controversy but I do not believe you need regard it as a special rebuke although such things (& I have a share) ought to check our worldliness mindedness even in studying the works of God & bring us back to himself & to the Savior who is our hope.

I do not believe that the impressions to which you refer among scientific men