Minutes of Proceedings. 233 



" 23, Denning-koad, 



Hampstead, ]S'.'W., 



March 26th, 1896. 



" SlE, 



"To be elected to the Honorary Membership of a body so 

 eminent as the Eoyal Irish Academy is a distinction of which any 

 man might well be proud. It is one of which I cannot presume to 

 think myself worthy, and I feel that I owe it more to the lenient 

 judgment of friends than to my own deserts. It shall, however, 

 incite me, during the time that may remain for work, to do all that I 

 can to show myself less unworthy of it. 



" May I ask you to convey to the proper quarter my very grateful 

 thanks for and acceptance of this most unexpected but most welcome 

 honour. 



"I am, Sir, 



' ' Your obedient servant, 



" T. G. Bonnet. 

 " Prof. Perceval Weight, m.d., 

 "Sec. E.I.A." 



"12, Aetjndel Gaedens, 

 " London, "W., 



''March 2Sth, 1896. 

 "My Deae Sie, 



"I have to acknowledge, with thanks, your letter of 

 the 24th March, informing me of my election as Honorary Member of 

 the Eoyal Irish Academy in the Section of Science. "Would you be 

 so good as to convey to the Academy my deep sense of the honour 

 they have done me, and my warm thanks. Such a recognition should 

 be, and I hope it will be with me, an incentive to future work. 



" Yours faithfully, 



" William Eamsay. 



" Ed. Peeceval Weight, Esa., m.d., 

 " Dublin." 



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