BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF CANADA. 
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Acton Green, Turnham Green, 
London, W., February 4, 1861. 
Dear Sir, — I have just received your letter of tlie 11th ultimo, informing me 
that I have had the honor to be elected an honorary member of the Botanical So- 
ciety of Canada. I beg you to assure the Society that I much value so flattering a 
mark of distinction, and that I greatly rejoice to find one of our most important 
colonies making such rapid strides in the prosecution of arts and sciences. Pray 
believe me, yours faithfully, 
JOHN LINDLEY, M. D., F. R. S., 
Emeritus Professor of Botany, U iiiversity College, London. 
Professor Lawson, Secretary of the Botanical Society of Canada, 
Nashville, Tennessee, U. S., 
February 5th, 1861. 
Sir, — The honor which the Botanical Society of Canada has conferred upon 
me, by electing me one of the honorary members of the body, is gladly and grate- 
fully accepted. You will please convey my thanks and heartiest good wishes te 
the members of the Society, and assure them that it shall ever be my endeavor to 
prove myself worthy of their honor, and that at all times, and in all places, I will 
bear their interests, and that of the noble science to which they are devoted, in 
mind. The establishment of such a body on this continent, will, I believe, prove 
of inestimable value, not only to Canada, but to the United States, and may, I trust, 
prove to be the means of increasing the small number of botanists in the Southern 
States. As Editor of a Scientific Journal, having an extensive circulation in the 
extreme South, I have it in my power to bring the proceedings and wants of the 
Society before a class of men which it could not otherwise reach, and will be happy 
to do so. 
The Society will please accept a donation of a copy of the said journal, " The 
Nashville Journal of Medicine and Surgery," which will be mailed to its Secretary 
every month. I should like to call its attention to an article on Euphorbia pros- 
trata, as an antidote for rattle-snake bites, published in the current number, 
I hope it will be in my power to send occasional papers and specimens to the 
Society. 
With the assurances of the highest esteem, I am, &c., 
GEO. S. BLACKIE, M. D., (Edin.) A.M., (N. Y.), 
Professor of Botany. 
Professor Lawson, Secretary of the Botanical Society of Canada. 
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