DEAN CLOSE AND SCIENCE.
[TO THE EDIT013 OF THE "SPECTATOR:]
Sin,—I think the Dean of Carlisle is a very unfit man to start a crusade against science, because he is so exceptionally ignorant of the simplest facts of natural history. Preaching at Swauage about nine years ago on the distinction between man and all other animals, he said that late scientific investigations had shown that human blood differed in the shape of its globules from the blood of any beasts or birds, "if, indeed," he added, "birds have blood." I solemnly declare that he uttered the words placed within the inverted commas. I do not believe it possible that Dean Close would either forget or deny that he used those words in the con- nection in which I have quoted them, but I am sure that, if called on, I could produce people who would remember them.—I am,
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