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When this became known I received a very large 

 number of letters of congratulation, and among them 

 the following characteristic one from Huxley : 



SCIENCE AND ART DEPARTMENT, S.K., 

 July 7, 1884. 



MY DEAR ROSCOE, 



I am very glad to see that the Government has had the 

 grace to make some acknowledgment of their obligation 

 to you, and I wish you and "my lady" long enjoyment of 

 your honours. I don't know if you are gazetted yet, so I 

 don't indicate them outside. 



Ever yours faithfully, 



T. H. HUXLEY. 



P.S. Shall I tell you what your great affliction hence- 

 forward will be? It will be to hear yourself called " S'enery 

 Roscoe " by the flunkies who announce you. 



Her ladyship will please take note of this crumpled rose- 

 leaf I am sure of its annoying her. 



BRITISH ASSOCIATION MANCHESTER, 1887. 



Among the various scientific honours which have 

 been conferred upon me there is none I prize more 

 highly than that of the Presidency of the British Asso- 

 ciation. I value this the more, inasmuch as I was 

 elected to hold the post in the city where I had resided 

 for so many years, and in the Jubilee year of the 

 Queen's accession. 



The meeting was notable as being the largest ever 

 held since the foundation of the Association, and 

 because in the same year the Royal Jubilee Exhibition 

 was opened in Manchester. Owing to the illness of 

 Sir William Dawson, the retiring President, my old 

 colleague Williamson, of Owens College, moved me 

 into the chair at the inaugural meeting in the Free 

 Trade Hall, stating kindly what he thought I had done 



