From William Spence   28 June 1855

London

28 June 1855

My dear Sir,

Very many thanks for your excellent sermon which I have read with great pleasure & only wish all our clergymen were like you able & willing not only to instruct their hearers while in the Church in the truths of Religion, but to lead them in the fields to see & apply the endless proof around them of the wisdom & goodness of their Maker. Natural History, however, though sadly in need of more teachers like yourself, is making some progress. M. r Patterson President of the Belfast N.H. Society, sends news about a series of very admirable Zoological Diagrams he has had made for the Government Science & Art Department of the Board of Trade, drank tea with him on Monday & says seventeen thousand copies of his “Zoology for Schools” have been sold. As you possibly may not have seen a Notice of these Diagrams, I beg to enclose one of those he gave me.

I am | my dear Sir, |yours very truly | W. Spence

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