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Professor Zimmerman to J. EF. Smith. 
Dear Sir, Brunswick, July 16, 1791. 
I feel myself under the greatest obligation for the 
undeserved honour of having been chosen a mem- 
ber of the Linnean Society. As I am mainly in- 
debted for it to your favour and friendship, I 
will not miss any opportunity to prove to you my 
acknowledgement and gratitude. 
1 take the liberty to direct to you a few copies 
of the beginning of an excellent work of my learned 
friend Mr. Lichtenstein of Hamburgh. In a few 
days the translation of Smellie’s Philosophy of Na- 
tural History, which was undertaken under my care, 
will be finished. I made many additions to that 
anti-Linnean work, part of which are refutations. 
I shall have the honour of sending a copy to the 
Linnean Society, as perhaps some among her mem- 
bers understand our language. I cannot conceive 
how Mr. Smellie could undertake a work without 
being master of more modern languages, for a great 
part of the new discoveries were lost to him. 
My son pays his respectful compliments to you, 
and acknowledges his great obligations for the 
kindness and care you bestowed on him last year. 
He is going to Gottingen, where he will study law, 
but properly statistics and technology. 
I am, with the greatest regard, Sir, 
Your humble Servant, 
E. A. ZIMMERMAN. 
