I have received the diploma from the Royal Society of Medicine and the first number of volume two of the Journal de médecine militaire, which you sent me.1 I kindly thank you and will forward both to the Boston college of medicine. Its members will be most flattered to be associated with so famous an institution, to share in its renown and the advantages of its work. They will find in its works the assistance they need and the means to concur in its salutary opinions. They will be most eager, when they realize what a help the Royal Society has been, to express their gratitude and their respect.

Pending a formal expression of these sentiments, I beg you, sir, to ask if I may assure them of the respect with which I have the honor to be, sir, your and their very humble and very obedient servant