DR. LINDSAY AND PROFESSOR BLACK.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 3251, 8 July 1872, Page 2

DR. LINDSAY AND PROFESSOR BLACK.

TO TUB EDrTOK.

Sir—"M.D.V letter in your issue of Thursday requires some notice. The charge of sneering which he brings against iJr. Lindsay, professedly in my intercut, is not, I submit, elegantly introduced by an effete eneer at ray nationality—a subject which, be his nationality what it may, need not have Imjcji imported into the present correspondence.

Sneering is not, I should think, consistent with the character of Dr. Lander Lindsay— a gentleman who, according to "M.D.V own personal knowledge, occupies a positioo. of euch importance in the home country. He is, I take it, brave enough to state his opinions openly, and does not require to have, recourse, for the expression of his sentiments, to a sneer, usually regarded as the resort of the weak, the foolish, the profane. It must be our consolation to know that if the influential and medical readers of tho Edinburgh Medical Journal are to be often, treated to such a stjde of literature as Dr L; ndsay is charged with introducing into fiat periodical, its "authoritative character" will not long be deservedly maintained. I have to request that " M.D." will, in his next communication—if the theme be still worthy of his pen—instead of reiterating his "par with Mechanics' Institutes," transfer to your pages, in full, for the information of such of your readers as take any interest in the subject, those passages in I)r Lindsay's paper on which he founds his charge against; that gentleman of sneering at my capacity, and mentioning me in "such disparaging* termn."

May I indulge in the expression of a mild liOjOthat "M. IX," having ample leisure, will devote a portion of his time to the writing for transmission by next mail of such a refutation of Dr Lindsay's allegations as will compel that gentleman to substitute an improved estimate of the status of our University for the one which wo reject, and deter him in future from making such " sneering," "disparaging," "degrading," and "calumnious " statements.

In conclusion, I would remark that the last sentence in "M.D's" communication in. Thursday's paper, to have any weight, would require the sanction of a bigger name than, he is likely to subscribe—-1 am, &c.,

.1. Gow Black.