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from which praise can worthily corns the highest encomiums that can 

 be given to courage and worth. The proudest tribute to your qualities 

 as a Seaman und a Commander has been paid to you in the unanimous 

 Address from the officers and men under your command, — the sharers of 

 your toil, — who -saw you in your hour of anxiety and danger, and ga- 

 thered courage and confidence from your countenance ; who saw you also 

 in your hour of success, and loved you for the generosity that made 

 you share with another the prime glory of the Expedition, whilst taking 

 on yourself a far more laborious and less exciting field of search. 

 Praise from men who knew you so intimately, and wrought with you so 

 long, must be to you an incense as sweet as has ever been offered to man. 



Youe native town was the next to address you, and well may she 

 be proud of the imperishable fame of her son. 



Thkn followed this University, within whose walls our Asso- 

 ciation is fostered, conferring on you, in full Comitia, the highest 

 honoraiy distinction in her power to bestow, — whether for courage, foi 

 conduct, or for science ; and in your case, Sib Leopold, the honorary 

 LL. D. was equally earned by, and was equally given to, distinguished 

 courage, distinguished conduct, and distinguished scientific research. 



And now, our gracious Queen, in dubbing you Knight, — we trust 

 in earnest of more substantial favours, — has gracefully acknowledged 

 that never were spurs better earned by chivalrous devotion to a noble 

 cause. 



The world will echo the words of the Sovereign, and, so long as ge- 

 nerosity and noble deeds are admired among men, the man who volun- 

 teered life and fortune, in the cause of a helpless woman and a true wife, 

 will live in the hearts of his countrymen. 



Aftjeb encomiums such as you have received, any praise from us, your 

 fellow-members of a Scientific Society, seems out of place, — unless we 

 limit it strictly to an expression of gratitude for the aid which, under 

 circumstances of great difficulty and anxiety, you found time, and 

 thought, and opportunity to render to the Sciences which we more espe- 

 cially cultivate. We heartily sympathize with you in the applause your 

 more public service has won ; but we gratefully thank you for what you 

 have done for Arctic Zoology and Botany. 



The details of your discoveries in Arctic Paleontology arc either al- 

 ready before the public, or are preparing for publication, and it would 

 be out of place to enumerate them now. But we cannot forget how, in 

 one case, with ship abandoned and an icy desert of unknown extent to 



