M^r D. is much obliged to M^r Reviewer for his kind note.² & believes that very few Reviewers feel such conscientious scruples.— M^r D. overlooked the error, but had he observed it, he would have felt positive from the fair & very friendly spirit of the whole article, that the word was a in some way the result of an accident.

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If as it is printed any further notice be taken of M^r D.’ book, he w^d venture to suggest to the Reviewer to grapple with the Ch. on Pang.³ A parent is not a trustworthy [judge] of the merits of his own offspring, but now that M^r D. knows what some few capable judges think, he ventures to express the conviction, that Pangenesis after some improvement, which follows from collision with the world, is destined to enjoy a wide admission. M^r D. believes that it is the first hypothesis which has been advanced showing in which generation [connects] & giving [here] a material connection for some large classes of facts