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DIRECTOR   Violet Kearney

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The sentence, after stating that they do not question that Mr. C. T. Carney has perfectly removed the oil from one of Mr. Seropyan's bills, " but the conclusion to which this gentleman is led by this triumph of his skill, is singularly erroneous, as every one. can easily see;" need not be noticed, except that, as it is incorrect, it may be as well to give the matter as stated by Mr. Carney himself, p. 133. "I have removed the oil in the groundwork from another one dollar note printed upon the same patent, and furnished to me by the committee for experiment, without disturbing a single' line or letter of the note printed thereon, thus removing the protection assured by Messrs. B. Silliman, James D. Dana, B. Silliman, Jr., and John Torrey, to be immovable, (without, by the same process, obliterating the printing,) and as being a certain protection against the use of the anastatic process in copying notes printed in this way, because of its being immovable, as they say, without the destruction of the note." And the conclusion to which he is led is thus stated : " The note is herewith submitted. It will be perceived, on examination, that the oil is discharged, and that that protection, if it was one, has disappeared, while the note proper remains undisturbed." As " the conclusion" is clearly the more statement of a fact, without expressing any opinion as to its legitimate consequences, it certainly is an abuse of language to call it erroneous. The gentlemen had said, " whatever means may be used to remove the oil will obliterate the printing," and the oil having been removed without obliterating the printing, and the fact of its being done being admitted by them, the conclusion that it is done is asserted to be " singularly erroneous!"