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Address which has since been forwarded to you, desire to add 
our cordial congratulations to those already conveyed. 
Jos. D, Hooker D. Morris 
Henry Seebobm W. Saville Kent 
Travers J. Briant Frank Crisp 
Frederic N. Williams Clement Reid 
J. T. Tristram-valentine Maxwell T. Masters 
Daniel Oliver Ew. Nilson 
Arthur Lister Thos. Frederic Inman 
George Brook Linley Blathwayt 
D. H. Scott 
[ fev. Leonard Blomefield to Mr. J. E. Harting, 
Librarian of the Linnean Society. | 
Belmont, Bath ; 
Nov. 22nd, 1892. 
My Dear Mr. HARTING, 
Thank you very much for your letter received on Saturday, 
and yet more for the very valuable congratulatory address from 
the members of the Linnean Society generally, which came safe 
to hand yesterday evening. In respect of this last I hardly 
know in what terms to make any adequate reply, or therein to 
express what I feel in the way of gratitude and thankfulness for 
so high a mark of esteem on the part of the Society, with which 
I have had so little intercourse for a long time back. True it is 
that my connexion with the Society, as far as membership goes, 
has now lasted for the long term of seventy years, longer perhaps 
than in the case of any other member, but it grieves me to think 
how little I have done personally for the interests of the Society, 
how trifling the contributions I have formerly made to its 
publications. When I open and inspect the journals which it 
puts forth from time to time (still so liberally sent to me as they 
appear), and see the valuable work being done by others, often 
most elaborate researches into the minute structure of the lower 
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