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lying still and peacefully in your grave. Nay, this 

 was even probable, and our chances ever to hear of 

 the certainty seemed to depend on their passage 

 through a very circuitous channel. 



"So you see what relief your note of the 8th 

 brought to us. Yet, although it has made us so glad, 

 it still leaves much to regret, that is, that you are 

 not here yourself, that we have not the pleasure of 

 shaking hands with you and enjoying your gentle 

 salutations and agreeable company, nor have the 

 pleasure each of us of leading you to see our own 

 collections, and to hear our own praise from living 

 lips, for one half of us do not believe in one half that 

 the papers say." 



That Robertson's exhibited specimens were com- 

 mended in private as well as in public, and behind 

 his back as well as to his face, is shown by a remark 

 of Norman's, under date September 18, 1876 : " I may 

 tell you that the Duke of Argyll . . . .was particularly 

 struck with the beautiful arrangement of your fine 

 collection of Crustacea." 



In November of the following year, after the meet- 

 ing of the Association at Halifax, where Mr. Sladen 

 himself resided, Robertson again writes to him : 



November 6. 



"Mv DEAR SLADEN, 



" Many thanks for your letter and news- 

 paper. No wonder that you had no time for your 

 wonted pursuits. The wonder is how you managed 

 even collectively to do so much, how you managed 

 to bring out so many different departments with such 



