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This introduction will I hope make you better ac- 
quainted with her, and be productive of a visit to her 
noble seat of Bulstrode, when I shall hope to have 
a share of your company there and at Uxbridge. 
As your election to become F.R.S. approaches, 
if you think there will be the least occasion for my 
presence, be pleased to write mea line, and I will 
be ready to tender you my services at a day’s no- 
tice ; and will at the same period beg another day 
or two to go through with the doubtful plants, if 
you will indulge me so far. 
I am, Sir, with great regard and affection, 
Your most obliged humble servant, 
JoHn LIGHTFOOT. 
Please to try if you can make out the M/urex am- 
biguus and despectus of Linneus, as also his WZ. cor- 
neus, against I see you. 
On the 28th of May, Sir James acquaints his 
father that “he was admitted a Fellow of the Royal 
Society on Thursday, without a single black ball ;” 
and adds, “I paid my money, 32/. 1ls., and took 
my seat the same evening: my success was indeed 
very flattering, and I believe gave my good friend 
the President great pleasure. 
“ T received a letter lately from Monsieur L’Héri- 
tier, a counsellor at Paris, on a botanical subject; in 
which he says, he will at any time give me my pur- 
chase-money and any other expense that I may have 
been at for my collection; but not expecting I 
