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ADDRESS TO SAMUEL ALEXANDER STEWART, 

 A.L.S., F.B.S.Edin., 



Curator of the Collections in the Belfast Museum, and Hon. 

 Assoc. Belfast Nat. Hist, and Phil. Soc. 



Dear Mr. Stewart, 



We, the President and Members of the Natural History 

 and Philosophical Society and the President and Members of 

 the Belfast Naturalists' Field Club, desire to place on record 

 the high sense of satisfaction with which we have learned that 

 you have been elected an Associate of the Linnean Society as 

 ^a recognition of your long and valuable services in botanical 

 research, and we desire to congratulate you most heartily on 

 it. And we trust that you may be long spared to wear your 

 well-won honours and to pursue the studies that have brought 

 you such distinction. 



We also request that you will accept this Purse of Sove- 

 reigns as a slight token of our friendship and esteem. 



We are, dear sir, yours sincerely, 



(Signed) 



Johnson Symington, President N.H. and P.S. 



Robert M. Young, Hon. Sec. N.H. and P.S. 



W. J. Fennell, President B.N.F.C. 



Robert Patterson, r ^^ ^, „ ^^ „ ^ 

 . I Hon. Sees. B.N.F.C. 

 Nevin H. Foster, i 



Belfast, 26th Ajjvil, 1904. 



MR. STEWART'S REPLY. 



Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen, 



It is with feelings of the utmost gratification that I receive 

 this complimentary address, and accompanying valuable gift. 

 My sense of its value is heightened by the fact that it comes 

 from the Officers and Members of the two Societies that culti- 

 vate Natural Science in Belfast and the North of Ireland; 

 also the occasion that you have taken adds very much to the 



