Letter from Benjamin Smith Lyman to J. Peter Lesley
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Lyman reports that Mr. Lesley's family is well, and criticizes exclusiveness of the election ceremony at the meeting of the Academy of Natural Sciences because "little or nothing is gained to science or the society by flattering the vanity of the society's members by exclusiveness."
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