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friends of Science have, upon this and no other claim, been ever 
treated as your personal friends, and admitted to your do¬ 
mestic circle; and that our heartfelt regrets attend our ap¬ 
proaching separation from one who is herself the brightest 
ornament of that circle, whose zeal and whose kindness have 
enhanced the value of all Your Excellency has bestowed 
or we received, and have augmented the deep concern with 
which we lament your departure. 
“ We have the honour to be, 
Your Excellency’s faithful and affectionate Servants, 
R. Tasmania 
E. Bicheno. 
Fraser. 
T. Boyes. 
T. G. Gregson. 
W. P. Kay. 
J. H. Kay. 
E. S. P. Bedford. 
H. Cotton. 
T. L. Belcher. 
W. L. Crowther. 
J. P. Yerreaux. 
R. R. Davies. 
T. Dove. 
J. W. Acjnew. 
W. H. Baylie. 
C. O’Hara Booth. 
W. R. Pugh. 
J. Grant. 
T. J. Lempriere. 
W. Valentine. 
R. H. Davies. 
David Burn. 
R. H. Lewis. 
J. Lillie. 
F. H. Henslowe. 
M. All port. 
T. J. Ewing. 
J. Milligan. 
G. Bagot. 
J. Barnard. 
C. Bradbury. 
J. P. Gell. 
W. H. Breton. 
R. C. Gunn. 
His Excellency was pleased to receive the Society’s Address 
very graciously, and to acknowledge it in the following 
terms: — 
u My Lord Bishop and Gentlemen, 
“ It is impossible for me to receive unmoved an Address 
of this nature from my associates of the Tasmanian Society. 
u You have kindly enhanced what little services I may in 
former fields of exertion have been able to perform for the 
cause of Science far beyond their deserts; and, in this country, I 
can only regret that neither my means 1 nor my ability have 
been adequate to give more than some initiatory encourage¬ 
ment to your efforts for the developement of the natural phe¬ 
nomena of this very interesting portion of our globe. 
“Under auspices still more favourable than my own, I 
cannot doubt that you will steadily pursue your exertions in a 
cause which you justly consider to belong to the best and 
highest interests of Tasmania, and which I am persuaded will 
tend much to elevate the Colony in the estimation of the 
European community. Your Transactions have already been 
received with favour and interest by names whose patronage 
is an encouragement and an honour; and I shall not fail to 
keep alive and cultivate those kindly dispositions, and to pro¬ 
cure for you every assistance in my power. 
u My connection with you, endeared as it has been by the 
domestic hearth around which we have assembled, will ever be 
cherished, not by me only, but by her to whom you have so 
kindly alluded, and who feels deeply and gratefully the manly 
and generous sentiments in which your tribute to her ori¬ 
ginates. 
“ John Fuanklin.” 
