*25C)' ANIMALCULA 01 INI'USIONS* i* 



In anfwering the little volume of fads which 

 you addreffed to me 20th of laft December, 

 I have made one of reflections, which have 

 employed me fome weeks to write. You fend 

 me gold, but you will receive only brafs in 

 exchange. Should this letter feem worthy of 

 appearing at the end of the work which you 

 are preparing on animalcula, you are at fuH 

 liberty to publifii it. 1 have attempted to colled 

 my latefl reflexions on a fubjeft which has erv 

 gaged my attention for many years. Perhaps 

 you will make fome notes on the letter, where I 

 have not correftly comprehended your meaning, 

 and always where your own opinion is different. 

 This is the real method to render it moft ufe- 

 ful to the public ; and you will afford me much 

 plealure by doing fo. 



1 cannot terminate this long epiftle, my worthy 

 correfpondent, without renewing the teftimony of 

 the great elleem, and fmcere attachment, which 

 have ever been borne towards you by the 



24 February 1771. Palingenisist, 



LETTER II. 



My Solitude, 20 April 1771-. 

 I REjoiCB, my dear Redi,that you are fatisfied 

 «vith my long letter on animalcula, and that my 



reflexions 



