Exhihitions, Session 188G-S7. 139 



Juli/ 14. 



Copy of Address to the Queen on the occasion of Her 

 Majesty's Jubilee : — 



" Unto the 



"QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY 



"the humble address of 



"^\)t liotanital ^ocictg of (ffbinburgl). 



" May it please Your Majesty, — 



" Your Majesty's Loj^al and Dutiful Subjects, The President 

 and Fellows of the Botanical Societj- of Edinburgh, a Society which Your 

 Majesty has graciously honoured with your patronage, beg leave most 

 respectfully to ajtproach the Throne with our warm and heartfelt con- 

 gratulations on the occasion of the Jubilee of Your Majesty's reign. In 

 doing so we feel that we are addressing not merely the Representative 

 of Institutions of which, as Britons, we are justly proud, or merely a 

 Sovereign whose reign lias been one ahke of unexampled material 

 prosperity and scientiiic progress, but one whose personal qualities as 

 a devoted wife and mother, and as a loving and sympathetic Ruler, have 

 commanded the respect and won the affections of her people. That 

 Your Majesty's reign may endure for many years yet to come is the 

 fervent wish and prayer of Your Majesty's devoted and humble servants. 



" Signed in name and on behalf of the Botanical Society of 

 Edinburgh, this 17th day of June 1887. 



" Alexander Dickson, President." 



To v/hich the following reply was received from the 

 Home Secretary : — 



"Whitehall, Idth July 1887. 



" Sir, — I have had the honour to lay before the Queen the loyal and 



dutiful Address of the President and Fellows of the Botanical Society 



of Edinburgh, on the occasion of Her Majesty attaining the fiftieth year 



of her reign, and I have to inform you that Her Majesty was pleased to 



receive the same very graciously. — I have the honour to be, Sir, your 



obedient servant, 



" Henry Matthews. 



" The President of the Botanical 



Society. Edinburgh, N.B." 



