TO THE 
Right Honourable 
WILLIAM 
Lord Vi-Cout BROUN CKER, 
PRESIDENT 
OF THE 
Royal Society. 
MY LORD, 
3 NE Reafon why I Dedicate the following 
> Difcourfes to Your Lordthip; is, For that by 
% Tour great und undeferved Refpeéts, You have 
Y obliged me to do no lefs. 
Another, my Lord, is, Becaufe I could 
mot but Publickly return Your Lordhip 
Thanks, for minding the Royal Society of fo good a Way, 
they are lately vefolved upon, for the Management of a 
great part of their Bufinefs. Wherein, my Lord, I do more 
than prefume, thas I alfo [peak the Senfe of the whole So- 
ciety 3 I think, not any one excepted. 
I may with the fame Confidence intimate, my Lord, 
how happy they account themfelves, in having a Perfon 
Jo fit to prefide their Affairs, as Your Lordíbip. The 
Largenefs of your Knowledge, the Exatine{s of Your Fude- 
ment , the Evennefs of Your Comport ; being fome of thofe 
neceffary Qualifications, which His Majelty had in His 
Eye Cas right well underflanding what He did ) when 
He fixed His Choice upon Your Lordhip. 
I know, my Lord, that oe are fome men, who have 
mia juft 
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