Continuation of the Review of Nott and Gliddon's Types of Mankind

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: for my use. The paragraph was copied and the book returned. Strange to say, Dr. Bachman never asked me to loan it to him. In a letter, Dow before me, dated October 15, 1849, he names two books, and two only, which he is desirous of seeing. A postscript informs me that he had been so fortunate as to obtain...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: for my use. The paragraph was copied and the book returned. Strange to say, Dr. Bachman never asked me to loan it to him. In a letter, Dow before me, dated October 15, 1849, he names two books, and two only, which he is desirous of seeing. A postscript informs me that he had been so fortunate as to obtain one of them in Charleston; the other?Rudolphi's Anthropologie?I would cheerfully have sent him, had he designated the means by which it was to be conveyed a distance of five hundred miles. I pass over, at least for the present, various instances of assertion, denial and invective, to notice one in particular. When I admit my mistake in not recognizing the Capra Egagrus as the source of the common goat, Dr. Bachman remarks: I am glad to see this admission, more especially as it is the only error which you have acknowledged as existing in your two papers; although I have clearly shown?and you have not ventured to deny the fact?that it abounds with errors in every paragraph. I am here censured for not denying an allegation that I was not conscious had ever been made. I have re-perused Dr. Bachman's first criticism, (to which the above paragraph alludes, ) and certainly nothing of the kind is contained in it. On the contrary, he therein speaks of my Essay as composed ''of two ingenious and elaborate articles, presenting all the facts which were then available on Hybridity in Animals. Now, this highly commendatory opinion was not hastily expressed; for, at the time it was published, my Essay had already been in Dr. Bachman's hands between two and three years. But, to the point: I now emphatically deny Dr. Bachman's allegation, and will, moreover, prove it to be incorrect. Dr. Bachman asserts that he has shown my Essay to abound in errors in every paragraph. I c...