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their full vigour, to a much later period than is allotted to 
most men, their constant exertion in such severe labours 
must necessarily impair, be prejudicial to health, and tend 
to produce bodily infirmity. His time is now come when 
he should retire from public life, and pass his latter days 
in calmness and repose. 
«“ And I most earnestly hope that the proposed appeal to 
Lord Aberdeen may be successful in obtaining for him some 
honourable distinction, to mark the estimation in which the 
eminent services he has rendered to science is appreciated 
by a grateful country, during his lifetime. Hereafter no 
name will be handed down to posterity with more lasting 
honours than that of Professor Jameson. Believe me, my 
dear sir, always very truly yours, CATHCART.” 
“ Paris, April 1854. 
“I deeply regret,” says M. L. Elie de Beaumont, “ for the 
cause of science, that Jameson is not able to carry on his bril- 
liant prelections, being unable to struggle against the weight of 
years ; but [am sure that all friends of science, deeply grate- 
ful for his noble and persevering exertions, would much de- 
plore if he were to hazard his health by resisting too long to 
the inevitable blows of time; and I am at the same time 
convinced that they would regret that the period of repose, 
now so necessary to him, should commence without being 
signalized by a great and honourable tribute of gratitude, 
which is due to him for the services he has rendered to his 
country, his university, and, I may add, to the whole of 
Europe, by having powerfully contributed, by the splendour of 
his instructions, and by his learned labours, to exalt the study 
of natural history. 
“‘ Such indeed is the sentiment of all the members of the 
Academy of Sciences of Paris, who have cultivated those 
branches which Professor Jameson, by his labours, has most 
advanced; and I may add, that the Academy, along with 
myself, should feel most happy if a public mark of respect 
_ was bestowed on the illustrous author of so many famous 
works, well known to the whole of Kurope—the learned edi- 
tor of the Philosophical Journal—a journal much prized by 
