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be able to get on better with my work at the Museum, 

 which, of course, is my first duty, and which I hope to see 

 a Httle further advanced during the few (official) years 

 I have still left to carry it on. 



I hear, as I anticipated, that the Committee unani- 

 mously supported your election, but it was thought 

 desirable that it should be ratified (as of course it will be) 

 by the Permanent Committee of the Congress, which sits 

 at Paris, and of which Milne-Edwards is President. He 

 has been written to by Mr. Bell (who was yesterday 

 appointed one of the Secretaries) and who will com- 

 municate with you officially when he receives the reply. — 

 Once more thanking you, I remain, yours most truly, 



W. H. Flower. 



The following letter from Mr. Frederic Harri- 

 son has reference to an interesting commemora- 

 tion. 



38 Westboubne Terrace, W., 

 10 December 1897. 



My dear Lubbock — I have been asked by the 

 promoters of the King Alfred Millenary Commemoration 

 in 1901 to call your attention to it, and to ask your 

 co-operation. It was suggested by my Address when 

 President of the Birmingham and Midland Institute, of 

 which you saw accounts in reports and articles in the 

 Press and see Spectator of last Saturday. Winchester 

 (his capital city and burial place) took up the suggestion, 

 and the Mayor and Corporation, Bishop, Dean and 

 Chapter, College, M.P., etc., etc., have moved in the 

 matter. The Lord Mayor of London will hold a Mansion 

 House meeting early in the session, and the idea is 

 to form a representative committee to approach the 

 Government to help the project. 



The following persons have been approached, and many 

 of them have already agreed to attend a meeting and sup- 

 port the idea. They are : Bishops of Winchester, London, 

 Oxford ; Deans of Durham and Winchester, Cardinal 

 Vaughan, Lord Reay, Lord Rosebery, Lord Acton, 

 Professors at Oxford and Cambridge ; Sir F. Pollock, 

 Sir M. Grant Duff, J. Bryce, J. Morley, W. E. Lecky, 

 Shaw Lefevre, Leslie Stephen, Sir E. M. Thompson, 

 Poet liaureate. Sir W. Besant, Sir W. Reid, Passmore 

 Edwards, etc., etc. 



