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par I'offre d'hospitalit6 si gracieuse dont il avait bien 

 voulu m'honorer. • A. de Lapparent, 



Secretaire perpetuel 

 de rAcad^mie des Sciences. 



La Cassine, Vendhesse 

 (Ardennes), 18. ix. 07. 



Cher Lord Avebury — J'applaudis de grand coeur 

 a la resurrection que vous m'annoncez, heureux de 

 penser que prochainement j'aurai I'occasion de m'en 

 assurer moi-meme ; car je serai a Londres le 26, le 

 President de la Societe G^ologique de France, en ce 

 moment malade, m'ayant prie de remplir a sa place la 

 delegation et de presenter I'adresse de notre Society. 



Avec mes respectueux hommages pour Lady Avebury, 

 et mes regrets de lui avoir inflige im veuvage injustifie, 

 je vous prie de me croire — Votre tout ddvoue, 



A. DE Lapparent. 



Lord Avebury felt his brother Edgar's death 

 very keenly. " The youngest of us," he writes, 

 " the first to go ! A terrible blow and quite 

 unexpected. A most useful life, and most loved 

 by us all. He was most kind to all his brothers 

 and sisters." Of the funeral he says, " There 

 were many more there than I had expected, 

 including the Governor and several of his Bank 

 of England colleagues." 



The occasion to which M. Margerie refers as 

 likely to bring him to London, and later to 

 Kingsgate as Lord Avebury's guest, was the 

 centenary of the Geological Society. Many of 

 the geologists, both British and foreign, went 

 to Kingsgate after the meeting in London, and 

 Lord Avebury records that he found their visit 

 of the greatest interest. It was an interest 

 keenly reciprocated, as several letters from foreign 

 correspondents show. His old friend. Dr. Heim, 

 the leading geologist of Switzerland, writes : 



