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nature of your difcoveries, and the confequences that flow from 

 them ; becaufe it is not in my power, nor perhaps in any one's, to ex- 

 plain them with as much clearnefs and diftindtnefs as you yourfelf 

 have done. Therefore, inftead of making any weak efforts to do fo, 

 I will only refer Gentlemen to the perufal of your own accounts of 

 them, in thofe communications which the Committee of Papers 

 have judged moft defervedly worthy of a place amongft the Tranfac- 

 tions of this Society. 



It only remains, therefore, to put the Medal into your hands, as 

 the moil: public mark that the Council can give of their high fenfe 

 of the great acceffion which natural knowledge has received from 

 your moll ingenious and accurate investigations. 



