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well aware that this is the most signal honor which can await an 
American naturalist, and can only feel that I owe it as much to the 
generous partiality of my many friends in the Society with whom I 
have been so loim associated as to the merit of the work which has 
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engaged my life. But I accept the award with the deepest grati¬ 
tude and pleasure, and freely promise that the sum which has been 
granted me shall be expended solely for the advancement of 
science. 
(Signed) 
Yours very sincerely, 
Sam. H. Scudder. 
