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I shall write my thanks to him personally.
How is Dr. Hermann Hagen pleased with his new position?
I think the presence of this superior entomologist will exert a powerful and important influence upon the development of entomology in North America. . . .
From Professor G. P. Deshayes.
Museum of natural History, Paris, February 4, 1870.
Your letter was truly an event, my dear friend, not only for me but for our Museum. . . . How happy you are, and how enviable has been your scientific career, since you have had your home in free America!
The founder of a magnificent institution, to which your glorious name will forever remain attached, you have the means of carrying out whatever undertaking commends itself to you as useful.
Men and things, following the current that sets toward you, are drawn to your side.
You desire, and you see your desires carried out. You are the sovereign leader of the scientific movement around you, of which you yourself have been the first promoter.
What would our old Museum not have gained in having at its head a man like you!
