greatly gratified and greatly encouraged. He had been 
feeling very desolate of late at the prospect of breaking 
the many bonds that bound him here, but he was now in a 
measure reconciled to the sacrifice, and would go to 
Chicago with cheerfulness -- indeed, that for the pleasure 
of this evening, he would even be willing to go to a worse 
place than Chicago. He said that he was grateful for the 
compliments- paid him, many of which were more than he de- 
served; that when he took up his residence in ,T the city 
by the lake” he would do his utmost to do credit to his 
Washington friends and to the Smithsonian Institution. 
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"Auld Lang Syne” and ”He T s A Jolly Good fellow” 
were sung and partings followed. 
