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to me on this side of the grave ; and I gave half-a-sovereign as a 

 thank-offering, and renounced my intended visit to Kenilworth. 



Mr. Gould joins us to-day at dinner, and in the evening we are 

 going to meet a few zoological friends at Mr. Spence's. Now that a 

 new week has commenced I am looking forward to the pleasure of 

 meeting you and the children again at Ipswich, preparatory to our 

 return home. 



Ever, my dear wife, 



Your faithful and affectionate husband, 



{Signed) Lovell Reeve. 



Have just heard that ;£ioi was collected after the sermon. Mr. R. 

 went. 



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Reply to a letter received January 17th, 1863, from C. C. Blake, 

 Esq.., informing me that I had been selected for nomination (on pay- 

 ment of £2 per annum) as a foundation member of the proposed 

 Anthropological Society : — 



Sir, 



I feel much honoured by being nominated for election into your 

 society as a foundation member, but I have not yet reached higher in 

 the series than the mollusks, and anthropology therefore is quite 

 beyond me. In ichthyology my pursuits are limited to the dinner table, 

 with ornithology I rarely occupy myself, except in the game seasons, 

 or from oological motives, and my observations on the mammalia are 

 directed to the habits of a splendid specimen of the genus Equus 

 which takes me to and from the station. I am sensible that the 

 noblest study of mankind is "anthropology," but it will not add to 

 the anthropological strength of your society to enroll amongst its 

 members 



Your very obedient servant, 



LOVELL REEVE (Signed). 

 C. C. Blake, Esq., 



Hon. Sec. Anthrop. Soc. 



The following extract from the introductory chapter of a ' Narrative 

 of a Walking Tour in Brittany, by J. Mounteney Jephson and Lovell 

 Reeve, will tend to exhibit the latter in a new light, as an amateur 

 photographer. The 'Narrative' was sold with ninety stereoscopic 

 plates, issued separately. 



