Since the publication of my Prospectus, and of the observations delivered in the previous note, the persons to whom that note alludes, have become ashamed of their conduct, and have, both in their lectures and through the press, asserted that I was not the object of their public attack; but that, _although it was quite unconnected with the object of the pamphlet in which it appeared_, yet they had taken the trouble to direct the attack against a gentleman at almost a thousand miles distance from them, and only two copies of whose book had ever reached the country; because, I suppose, they were alarmed lest, at that _short distance_, that gentleman should influence attendance upon their lectures, and lest a work so _widely diffused_ over the country should “encourage the rash and the ignorant to sport, _by means of accurate measurements_, with the lives of their fellow creatures, and entail disgrace and misery on themselves....” _Humanity_ is certainly deeply indebted to their generous, disinterested and philanthropic exertions! How much to be regretted that it has not ever had such guardians! Monuments doubtless, rivalling that of the hero of Trafalgar, will be erected to their memory—monuments of a nobler kind, because destined to record, not the triumphs of war, but the triumphs of lectureship in anatomy, physiology and surgery, which certainly involve, not the destruction, but the preservation of lives. What! M. Richerand, only at a thousand miles distance, influencing the _newly organized_ courses of lectures in Edinburgh, and _two copies_ of his dangerous book, proposing precise measurements in surgery, _actually_ in the British empire.—Some gentlemen, perhaps, may be sufficiently ill-informed to imagine that the attack was really directed against so weak a creature as myself. How improbable! It is self-evident that I, _in Edinburgh_, could not have a thousandth part of the influence upon their lectures, that M. Richerand could _at the distance of a thousand miles_, and that my lectures, inculcating the principle _every day_, could not have a millionth part of the tendency to “encourage the rash and ignorant to sport, _by means of accurate measurements_, with the lives of their fellow creatures and entail disgrace and misery on themselves,” that _two copies_ of M. Richerand’s book, actually in the country, must infallibly have.... He would be almost mad who could suppose the allusion was to me, because I was at hand and _therefore_ could have no influence upon their lectures; I was delivering these opinions every day, and they _therefore_ could not be disseminated: hence these gentlemen had no earthly interest in alluding to me. He, on the contrary, is wise who supposes that the allusion is to M. Richerand, because he is in Paris and _therefore_ must have great influence upon their lectures; of his book even two copies are in the British empire and its sentiments _consequently_ must be most