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honour would be inscribed upon his monument, so do I hope, that 

 those who survive me will not fail to have engraved on my tomb- 

 stone the record of which I may well be proud — that by the good- 

 will of my associates I served for twenty-seven years as a Member 

 of their Council, and was during seven of those years the President 

 of the Eoyal Geographical Society. 



