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LXXXIV. 



SIE EGBERT PEEL TO HTJMBOLDT. 



Whitehall, 4th Sept., 1843. 



Dear Baron de Humboldt, I was most flattered by 

 your kind attention in transmitting for my acceptance 

 your most interesting work on Central Asia. It will 

 be much prized by me, as well on account of its 

 intrinsic value as a token of your personal regard and 

 esteem- 

 There is no privilege of official power, the exercise 

 of which gives me greater satisfaction, than that of 

 occasionally bestowing a mark of Eoyal favour and 

 public gratitude on men distinguished by scientific 

 attainments and by services rendered to the cause of 

 knowledge. 



From the very limited means which Parliament has 

 placed at the disposal of this Court, it has been my 

 good fortune to be enabled to recognise the merit of 

 Mr. Eobert Brown. I have just conveyed to him 

 the intimation that Her Majesty has been pleased to 

 confer upon him for his life a pension on the Civil 

 List of two hundred pounds per annum, in recognition 

 of his eminent acquirements as a botanist and of the 

 value of his contributions to the store of botanical 

 knowledge. 



Believe me, dear Baron de Humboldt, with sincere 

 esteem, 



Very faithfully yours, 



EGBERT PEEL. 



