Permit me to thank you most heartily for your great kindness to the members of the Haeckel Club of Rochester and to myself personally in sending the admirable likenesses of yourself for the walls of our Club. I need hardly tell you how greatly we shall value these photographs and they will become increasingly valuable and suggestive to us a the years pass.
We are assiduous students of all your works an devoted adherents of the principles and theories which your life typifies and your work developed.
That you may enjoy many more years of continued health and happiness is the wish of us all.
With the highest expression of esteem four the example of your noble and useful life
