404 LIFE OF BENJAMIN SILLIMAN. 



ing that his labors were appreciated in foreign coun- 

 tries. 



FROM REV. R. R. GURLET. 



WASHINGTON, November 25, 1841. 



Too long have I neglected to express my obligations for 

 the letters with which you were pleased to honor me when 

 about to embark for England, and my regret that I saw so 

 little, while there, of your excellent friends, Dr. Daubeny 

 and Professor Buckland. I enjoyed, however, repeated 

 interviews with both, and had the happiness to hear from 

 them sentiments of the highest respect and regard for your- 

 self. From both I was requested to bear to you the assur- 

 ances of their warm esteem and friendship. Dr. Buckland 

 I first met at the British Association, in Glasgow, when at 

 a public dinner in the theatre, to about one thousand 

 gentlemen, I was favored with an opportunity of publicly 

 expressing my admiration of your character, and my re- 

 gret that you were not present to represent, better than 

 any other American could do, the cause of science in 

 our country. And you may be assured, that among the 

 purest pleasures experienced by me while abroad, was 

 that arising from the applause which your name excited 

 throughout that great and learned assembly. Dr. Daubeny 

 kindly invited me to Oxford, but it was not in my power to 

 visit that place. I subsequently dined with Dr. Buckland, 

 Lord Northampton, the sculptor Chantrey, Professor Whe- 

 well, and other gentlemen of science, at the Geological 

 Club, and attended the meeting of the Society in the even- 

 ing, I cannot but hope, my dear sir, that having by ardu- 

 ous efforts in the cause of science and humanity, won so 

 bright a fame in Europe, as well as America, you will yet 

 revisit England to renew your personal imtercourse with 

 those who love and admire you there, thus receiving and 

 imparting happiness, which you never fail to do in every 

 intelligent and refined society. 



