1 88 REMINISCENCES OF 



I became President of the Literary and Philosophical 

 Society of Manchester. In 1889 the Geological 

 Society of London did me the honour of awarding 

 me the Wollaston Gold Medal. The University 

 of Gottingen, the Royal Society of Stockholm, 

 and the Natural History Society of Geneva elected 

 me honorary member. The Geological, Microscopic, 

 and Quekett Societies of London did me the 

 same honour. Indeed, I had no reason to complain 

 of neglect or forgetfulness on the part of my 

 scientific brethren. 



The British Association for the Advancement of 

 Science arranged to hold its meeting of 1887 in 

 Manchester, and a few of us determined to spare no 

 efforts to make the meeting a success. I was 

 especially anxious to bring to it a brilliant gathering 

 of botanists, and began my efforts to do so early in 

 the spring, by writing to Dr. and Mrs. Asa 

 Gray of Harvard. I was disappointed on receiving 

 a reply intimating that they would not be able 

 to come, but I sent a second letter by return 

 post, saying they must come ; we wanted them to be 

 our personal guests, and could not dispense with 

 them. Dr. Gray replied that as they were so 

 evidently needed, they had not only decided to 

 come, but had taken berths in an early steamer, in 

 order to secure time for a Continental trip. So far, 

 well. I then appealed to Professor de Barie of 

 Strasburg, the Marquis de Saporta of Aix, Prof. 

 Cohn of Breslau, Prof. Sachs of Wiirzburg, Professor 



