60 Presentation to Mr. S. A. Stewart. 



brilliant. Mr. Fennell then read a number of extracts from letters 

 received congratulating Mr. Stewart on his well-earned honour. 

 Amongst the writers were Lady Harland, Sir William Quartus 

 Ewart, Bart. D.L. ; Miss Hodges, Rev. C. H. Waddell, Messrs. 

 James Davidson, Corry, and others. 



The Address was read by the Honorary Secretary — Mr. R. M. 

 Young : — 



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. 



TAEAR MR. STEWART,— We the President and Members of 

 the Natural History and Philosophical Society, and the 

 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 long be 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 Sovereigns as 

 a slight token of our friendship and esteem. 

 We are, dear Sir, 



Yours sincerely, 



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, 

 NEVIN. H. FOSTER, 



Hon. Sees., B.N.F.C. 

 Belfast, 26th April, 1904. 



