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Down, April 10th [1846].
I was much pleased to see and sign your certificate for the Geolog[ical Society]; we shall thus occasionally, I hope, meet.

(320/1.

Sir Joseph was elected a Fellow of the Geological Society in 1846.) I have been an ungrateful dog not to have thanked you before this for the cake and books.

The children and their betters pronounced the former excellent, and Annie wanted to know whether it was the gentleman "what played with us so." I wish we were at a more reasonable distance, that Emma and myself could have called on Lady Hooker with our congratulations on this occasion.

It was very good of you to put in both numbers of the "Hort.


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