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Survey work to Wolverhampton, Manchester, Leeds, Barnsley, 
and Birmingham, stealing a few days off his Survey duty 
to spend at pure Botany at Warrington with Wilson the 
botanist, who had been working at the mosses in his Flora 
Antarctica. ' We are now pulling my Tasmanian specimens 
of Dmvsonia to pieces, and can hardly make out whether it be 
a new species or variety ' (May 20). 
On April 21 of this year he was elected to the Eoyal Society, 
as Wallich^ described it, ' by a vast majority, ... a majority 
much greater than any among the eight candidates that were 
successful. He had ninety-five votes, nor was any one can- 
didate's certificate so amply and gloriously filled up as his ! ' 
Of this scientific success he writes with his usual dif&dence 
in his own powers to his grandfather, to whom he owed so 
much scientific encouragment. 
St. John's College, Cambridge : April 26, 1847. 
My dear Grandfather,— I thank you very much for 
the kind congratulations you have sent me on my election 
to the K.S. You I can thank with more ease than any one, 
for you are one of the very few who can see to the full how 
entirely I am indebted to those who have gone before and 
stood by me, for what superiority in position over my con- 
temporaries their good offices have obtained for me. My 
advantages in Boss's voyage ; the procuring of the after 
grant ; the launching of my book into the world in the 
form it boasts and the continuation of that work in a credit- 
able state up to the present day ; my testimonials for 
Edinburgh ; my appointment to the Government Survey 
(small though it be)— are all advantages for which I am 
indebted to the position my father has gained for himself 
and which has enabled him to lay my little merits before 
special knowledge was of great value to the Commission on potato disease, 
1845. On his retirement in 1879 he presented his herbanium of fungi and his 
books to Kew. He was elected F.L.S. 1836, F.E.S. 1879, receiving the Royal 
Medal in 1863. 
1 Nathaniel Wallich (1786-1854) was a Danish surgeon at Serampore who, 
when the place fell into English hands in 1813, entered the service of the E.I.C., 
and in 1815 was made superintendent of the Calcutta Botanical Garden, a post 
he held till 1850. He returned finally to England in 1847, having done immense 
work as a botanical explorer, and brought back vast collections, the final 
distribution of which was completed by Hooker. 
