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Eesolved, In acknowledgement of bis valuable services, the tJianks of this 

 Society be respectfully tendered to Dr. THOMAS B. WILSON for his earnest 

 and indefatigable exertions in securing to the Society its many facilities for 

 promoting the Science of Entomology, and our high appreciation of him as an 

 upright and honorable man, and as a useful and valuable citizen. 



Besolved, That a copy of the foregoing Preamble and Resolution be suitably 

 engrossed, signed by the Officers, handsomely framed and presented to Dr. 

 Thomas B. Wilsok. 



JAS. H. B. BLAND, President. 



C. F. PARKER, V. President. 

 E. T. CRESSON, Corresponding Secretary. 



J. FRANK KNIGHT, Recording Secretary/. 



la due time the following letters were received : — 



Philadelphia, Dec. 29th, 1863. 

 Gentlemen — On Tuesday evening the 15th inst. I had the pleasure of receiv- 

 ing from you a very unexpected visit, bringing with you a very beautifully 

 engrossed and framed cojiy of certain Resolutions in reference to myself, passed 

 t)y •• The Entomological Society of Philadelphia," at its Stated Meeting, Nov. 

 9, 1863. 



I beg you will convey to the Society my thanks for the unmerited and unex- 

 pected honor it has conferred upon me — and accept also for yourselves my 

 thanks for your kindness and courtesy on the occasion of the presentation. 



Yours, respectfully, 



THOMAS B. WILSON. 

 To Messrs. Charles A. Blake, 

 J. Frank Knight, 

 Robert Frazer, 

 Committee of Ent. Soc. of Philadelphia. 



Philadelphia, December 29, 1863. 



Dear Sir — The trains on the railroad to Delaware are at present in such a 

 confused condition, that I am somewhat apprehensive something may occur to 

 prevent me from carrying out my intended donation of $5,000 to the Entomo- 

 logical Society at its next meeting. I cannot transfer the Schuylkill Naviga- 

 tion Loan before next week, and cannot well have a Ground Rent Deed drawn 

 out and properly examined by my lawyer in time for the next meeting of the 

 Society; under these circumstances, I have concluded to make the donation 

 cer (at ft while I am in town this week, by handing over to you 10 First Mortgage 

 Bonds of the Philadelphia and Reading R. R. Co. of $500 eacli, which you will 

 please present in ray name to the Entomological Society of Philadelphia, at its 

 next meeting. I have cut off the coupons for January, 1864, so that the first 

 Interest to be received by the Society will be July 1. 1864. Should the Society 

 prefer afterwards to exchange these Bonds for the Schuylkill Navigation Loan 

 or for the irredeemable Ground Rent, I shall be quite willing to do so, my ob- 

 ject at present being simply to secwre the donation in some form to the Society. 



Yours, respectfully, 



THOMAS B. WILSON. 



To Jas. W. McAllister, Esq., 



Treasurer of Entomological Soc. of Philad. 



