DEDICATION, 



and a lorettier word ! These were the profound reasons as- 

 signed for the exclusion of a science represented by a 

 society, which numbers nearly five hundred members, 

 from the yearly scientific congress of the country. 



You will thus perceive, my dear colleague, that as yet 

 this country is behind your own in the appreciation of our 

 science, although some progress has been made in this 

 direction during the past few years. We shall, therefore, 

 still look to you for encouragement and assistance, and 

 so long as we receive your sympathy in our work, we 

 shall not fail to labour. We shall not, of course, rest until 

 a formal recognition of our science is afibrded to us by the 

 British Association, and I know we may rely on your 

 kind assistance to promote this end. We are confident 

 that a full recognition must come in time, but we would 

 gladly be spared the contention and ill feeling which are 

 both prejudicial and derogatory to scientific men. 



I will not enlarge here, my dear sir, either on your 

 future work or our own. May you long live to further 

 the cause of science, and to deserve the gratitude and 

 esteem of your fellow-workers, and especially of 



Your faithful and obliged Colleague, 



JAMES HUNT. 



Ore House, near Hastings, 



November 28th, 1864. 



