jS PEOCEEDINQS OF THE 



Kent, tte Counters of Carlisle, the Countess of Morton, two 

 daughters of Lord Pomfret, three daughters of the Earl of Essex, 

 a daughter of Lord Guildford, Lady Carpenter, four daughters 

 of Sir John Heatheote, etc., etc. 



Of all these people very few wish to leave off; and I have had 

 some of them for eight years in my hands, so that I can receive 

 no more. 



My work lasts for six months in the year, that is, from the 

 beginning of January till June, when they all depart to their 

 coLintrv seats for the summer, and I stay now and then for some 

 time with one or other of them ; thus I have an excellent oppor- 

 tunity of seeing much in England. 



I must also mention that ttiis winter, 1758, a considerable 

 collection of my work, which I had prepared for a Baron Francis 

 St. John a few^ years ago, was sold at an auction. I weut pri- 

 vately to the auction to hear how my work went ; and as they 

 were sold singly, they ran up to a high price, so that most of 

 them went at double the money, some for two or three times as 

 much. This brought me not a little fame, and many people 

 congratulated me on it. 



Through the many acquaintances which I made in England 

 by my work, I was elected a Eellow of the E-oyal Society of 

 London on May 19th, 1757. 



It is a strange thing that the names of all the foreign Fellows 

 of the Koyal Society are published in a separate list, and are 

 not mixed with those in the English list, as is the custom in 

 England. My name, however, was entered in the English list, 

 and I am the only German among them. 



N.B. — But, according to English custom, I had to pay 

 25 guineas to the Society on my election. Foreigners do 

 not pay. 



"Written by GEOEa Diontsius Eheet of Heidelberg the 

 27 tb October, 1758, in Park Street, London. 



[This translation has been made by Miss E. S. Barton from 

 the original MS. in German, preserved in the Botanical Depart- 

 ment of the British Museum, a few obvious misspellings being 

 corrected. The accompanying portrait is from a photograph of 

 an original painting in the possession of Mrs. G-rover, tlie widow 

 of one of Ehret's lineal deseendant^l ; and the translator desires to 

 express her indebtedness to Mrs. Grover as well as to Capt. Miller 

 Layton for kindly helping her to obtain an authentic portrait of 

 their ancestor.] 



