I have a suspicion that Mr. Edmonds intends the fifteen pages on the “Law of Human Mortality,” which appear in the last Number of this Journal, to stand in place of an answer to my remarks “On an unfair suppression of due acknowledgment to the writings of Mr. Benjamin Gompertz,” printed in the July Number; for though no allusion is made to the charge, still less statement of it or answer to the evidence produced, there is one mention of me which looks so like a distortion of my paper, that I think the suspicion is justified. Mr. Edmonds says (p. 181), “Mr. De Morgan, in his office of self-constituted judge between Mr. Gompertz and me, overlooks this important error …” Now, though my paper does not deal with the truths or errors of either, but only with the question whether Mr. Edmonds's mention of Mr. Gompertz was suppressive; and though I never said, and certainly never thought, that there was or could be any question pending between Mr. Gompertz and Mr. Edmonds; and though I was not the judge, either self-constituted or otherwise, but only the promoter of an accusation of unfair suppression for others to judge of;—there is in the quotation that remote likeness to an account of my proceeding which often exists between that which cannot be answered and that which it is convenient to substitute for it.