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in London, having been summoned to attend i < om- 

 mittce of the House of Commons <>n the Bubjcct of the 

 Abolition of the Slave Trade. 



On the 16'th of August 1 793, he Bayi to his friend 

 Dr Garthsiioke : " Tliis will be handed to yon 1»\ 

 Mr Lawson of this place, for whom I beg your good 

 offices with Mr Hunter and .Mr Home. .Mr Law- 

 son carries with him two saw Hies, male and female, 

 for Mr Hunter, from me. The female, 1 belii 

 has not been seen before; and Mr Ilrvn.i: will pro- 

 bably let the President examine it." As an illustra- 

 tion of the interest which is taken l>\ naturalists in 

 such subjects, another quotation is offered, from a 

 ter to Dr Garthshore, of the L5th of Octob 

 " Mr Home tells me the female saw IK never reach- 

 ed him. If our friend Jonas purloined the lady for 

 Sir Joseph Banks I am satisfied, and will Bend the 

 only one I had for myself.*' 



On the 17th of December he again writes to l>> 

 Garthshore : " Mr Archibai d Ai won, brother 

 in-law of Dr GREGORY, and author of an e88ay on 

 Taste, is a candidate for a fellowship in the Royal 

 Society of London. I am greatly interested in hifl 

 success, and 1 trust yon will take care of his election 

 Dr (4hec;'>uy was foremost in the- interest of Sil 



George Bakeb here*' 



On the 15th of February 1793, Dr Wright e 

 addresses DrGARTHSHORE as follows: " Mi LlNB 



say of Westmoreland. Jamaica, has made several 

 communications to the Royal Society of Edinburgh; 

 and two of them, on the Quassia polygama, and tin 



