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Professor Blumenbach to J. E. Smith. 
Dear Sir, Goettingen, Dec. 25, 1795. 
I return you my best thanks for the interesting 
acquaintance of Dr. Duncan you were so kind to 
procure me by your introductory letter. He spent 
some months with us, and, as I hope, to his satis- 
faction. I wish you would be tempted, dear Sir, to 
a second tour on the continent, and particularly to 
a trip to Goettingen, where I should think myself 
very happy to return you, in any way, the civilities 
you showed me during my abode in London. 
You will receive here a letter of a friend of mine, 
Mr. Persoon, from the Cape, a very estimable ac- 
curate naturalist ; and I request your acceptance of 
a pamphlet of mine I published lately. 
A propos, you were kind enough to present me 
with a curious enigmatical sea-animal of the class 
of Vermes, out of your Linnean museum, which I 
keep as a relic of a saint, as well as a token of your 
kindness to me: a figure of it is given ina rather 
indifferent book, Schréder’s Eznleztung in die Con- 
chyhen-kenniniss, T. 11. tab. 6. fig. 21, and de- 
scribed under the name of a magnified Sadella (?), 
under which genus it is likewise put in the new edi- 
tion ofthe 8S. VV. T. 1. p. vi. p. 3751. 
I shall be happy to be of any use to you; and am, 
with much regard, 
Dear Sir, &c. 
J. FREDERICK BLUMENBACH. 
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