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zoologists and geologists at Milne- Ed wards’ to 
dinner.’ 
Sailing from Marseilles via Leghorn, where the 
ship stayed long enough for him to pay a flying 
visit to Pisa, and Civita Vecchia, they arrived at 
Naples on September 15, ‘taking in passengers 
for the Congress at each port ; we numbered at 
last nearly 300.’ 
Once settled at Naples he writes long letters to 
his wife, the first of which is dated September 20, 
1845: ‘And now, my dear Caroline, that I find 
myself in the cool quiet of my apartment after 
the hurry and excitement of this first day of the 
Congress, I hasten to the enjoyment of a deeper 
pleasure than any that the events at Naples have 
given me — a conversation with my own dear loved 
wife, whom I have often had in my mind during 
busy and exciting scenes, bearing patiently in her 
far-distant and comfortless abode her own indis- 
position, and comforting our dear patient little 
Willie under his.’ After some details of his 
voyage he refers to the meeting, and says : ‘ The 
King^ was present, and, some flattering allusion 
being made to him, he rose, and, much to the sur- 
prise of all, addressed the meeting ; he said (as 
Prince Canino translated it to me), he deserved 
no praise, and could not listen to it from his own 
Minister (the President, who was Minister of 
the Interior); he felt himself the favoured and 
Meeting of the Italian Naturalists. Bomba. 
