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which is to express our sincere hope that time and means will be 
found you to prosecute in Europe the great undertaking you have 
commenced so well, and bring it to a successful conclusion. 
Should the authorities who preside over the department to which 
gist, but also to render you every assistance in our power. 
[Signed.] 
W. H. Flower, F.R.S., etc., President of the Zoological 
Society of London. 
T. H: Huxley, Sec. KS: 
Charles Darwin, F.R.S. 
St. Geo. Mivart, FRS., Sec. L.S: 
Alfred R. Wallace. 
A. Günther, F.R.S., Keeper of the Department of 
Zoology, British Museum. 
Philip Lutley Sclater, M.A., Ph.Dr., F.R.S., Secretary to 
he Zoological Society of London. 
Alfred Newton, F.R.S., V.P.Z.S., Prof. of Zodlogy in the 
University of Cambridge. 
H. B. Tristram; E.R.S. 
Osbert Salvin, M.A., F.R.S., Editor of The ozs. ; 
F. Du Cane Godman, Secretary of the British Ornithol- 
ogists’ Union; and twenty-six others. 
