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 filled up. Should you have been the successful Candidate, I should think the University of Edinburgh a subject for warm congratulation. Should the judgment of the electors be still pending, I can only say that your appointment would, as I conceive, be hailed with satisfaction by all competent judges. I say this not as a mere compliment, or in deference to general opinion, but as one who has read your first edition with admiration and delight.

I have the honour be,

Yours faithfully,

W. H. THOMPSON.