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TO |<^| 



THOMAS FURLY FORSTER, Esq. ^' 



FELLOW OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY. 



Ml/ dear Sir, 



Among the various 

 consultations and communications 

 which have taken place between us 

 ifi t lie course of our long and un- 

 interrupted friendship , I recollect 

 that one object of your anxious 

 curiosity has always been the La- 

 chesis Lapponica of Linnceus, so 

 often alluded to by himself and 

 his pupils, and the original Swed- 

 ish manuscript of which came 

 into my hands with the rest of his 



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