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AND LOWER EGYPT. 165
have truth upon my side. I had prepared my an-
swer, but citizen Lamethrie, to whom I proposed
the insertion of it in the Journal de Physique, as
composing a sequel to my observations, remarked
to me, that having refused to publish M. Ber-
thout's critique, it would have had an awkward
appearance to let my reply appear in it. I give it
in this place ; and as I employ, in disculpation of
my pretended mistakes, only the words and the
quotations of M. Van-Berchem himself, I begin
with transcribing his letter. This little discussion,
moreover, will not be wholly useless; it will fur-
nish new elucidations on the natural history of the
gerboise, at the same time that it will shew how
far criticism, when it lays stress on minutise, runs
the risk of misleading.
Letter on the true nomenclature of the gerboise ; by
M. Berthout-van-Berchem the younger, perpetual
Secretary to the Society of Physics, at Lausanne.
" In a work on quadrupeds which I have just
*' published, will be found a detailed history of the
" gerboise. I satisfy myself at present with giving
" the true nomenclature of that animal, which
" proves that the alagtaga and the gerboa are two
" different species, that M. Sonnini has committed
" an error in classing them together {Journal de
M 3 " Physique,
have truth upon my side. I had prepared my an-
swer, but citizen Lamethrie, to whom I proposed
the insertion of it in the Journal de Physique, as
composing a sequel to my observations, remarked
to me, that having refused to publish M. Ber-
thout's critique, it would have had an awkward
appearance to let my reply appear in it. I give it
in this place ; and as I employ, in disculpation of
my pretended mistakes, only the words and the
quotations of M. Van-Berchem himself, I begin
with transcribing his letter. This little discussion,
moreover, will not be wholly useless; it will fur-
nish new elucidations on the natural history of the
gerboise, at the same time that it will shew how
far criticism, when it lays stress on minutise, runs
the risk of misleading.
Letter on the true nomenclature of the gerboise ; by
M. Berthout-van-Berchem the younger, perpetual
Secretary to the Society of Physics, at Lausanne.
" In a work on quadrupeds which I have just
*' published, will be found a detailed history of the
" gerboise. I satisfy myself at present with giving
" the true nomenclature of that animal, which
" proves that the alagtaga and the gerboa are two
" different species, that M. Sonnini has committed
" an error in classing them together {Journal de
M 3 " Physique,