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Will be pleafed to (end mie. 
by water) any fiſh, reptile, mollufk they will see. At 
their return home the mere light of thofe objects will 
be valuable to me; I will in return give you their pro- 
per names, and Thould you be willing to give me [ome 
of them, a ſuitable return will be made by the gift of 
ſome of my works, etc. If you area bookleller, you may 
receive [ubleriptions for me, or help me in the difposal 
of my works, and procure me ſome rare pamphlets or 
publications not in my pollellion: the purchale I will 
make of thefe, and the commifſion I will allow you on 
the fales or fubfcriptions, ought to be a ſufficient induce- 
ment for you, if you do not value the plealure of pro- 
moting my undertakings, and natural ſcience. 0 
a If you live in Europe, I ſhall crave from yon Ipeci- 
mens of Plants, Shells, Minerals: Books, Panıphlets and 
publications on all the parts of Natural Hiftory. I Thall 
receive thankfully any kind of information or news rela- 
ting to natural ſciences, Such as discovcries, publications, 
proceedings of imdividuals and learned focieties, cte. 1 
offer you in return my fervices in America, any ylanis 
which you Will lend me, even of the moſt common kind, 
Will be returned by’ a double number of American plants, 
I particularly beg for complete lets of the natural orders 
and fa::ilies of orchideous, ombelliferous, Iiliaceous, gral- 
ſes, moſſes, lichens, marine plants, labiated, legunıimous, 
etc. and for ſpecimens or the characters of all the new 
genera. Should you want leeds of American plants and 
trees, books printed in America, American minerals, 
etc. I will send them to you in exchange of what you 
I propofe you elpeuiallyz 
“fhould you be an author, an exchange of your own works, 
with such of mine, as you may wish. lt you'will lend 
me ſeveral copies of yer own works, I will difpole of 
them to my friends in the United States, and employ or 
remit the proceeds as you may direct. Hetters, pargels, 
lants, books, elc. may be forwarded to ine, via Landon, 
iverpool, Briltol, Dublin, Amſterdam, Antwerp, Ham- 
burg, St. Peterſpurg, Bordeaux, Marleilles, leghorn, 
Naples, Cadiz, Lisbon, etc. where vur American vellels 
keep up a regular trade: „ou may direct yon friends in 
\ hole places to lend the letters by any vellel failing ſor 
Philadelphia, New York, Bolton or Baltimore, and they 
— 
Bits and naturaliſts of ur country, fa 
will reach me through our poſt office; but pareels plants 
and books Thould, if poffible, be ſent direct here, or to 
New York (where they may be addrelled to the care of 
my friends Messrs. Rossier and Roulet.) Ibeg you will 
receive fubfcriptions for my works, and if you procure 
me nine, the tenth- will be yonrs gratis; if you could 
difpoſe of [ome others of my works, I will’ fend them on 
„Tor that purpoſe. If yon are a bockleller, you will much 
blige me, and render a ſervice to natural fcience, by at- 
ending carefully to the ſubſeript ons and difpolal of my 
orks, or offering 0 publiſn ſuch as I mean to ſend to 
Europe for publication, and by ſending me your cata- 
logues, ihat I may choole luch works and new publica- 
tions as may [ui me or my friends here, and order you 
10 forward them, directing me how to pay the prices, 
Whoever you are, I earneltly requefi you to acquaint 
me with the names and abodes of all such perfons you 
may know to be likely to promote my views, and accept 
my öffers, in order that I may address them in future; 
meantime enmmumnicate this to them. 
If yon live in Mexico or the Welt Indies, South Ame. 
rica, Africa, Alia, Polyneſia, Auſtralia, etc. pleale to (end 
me [pecimens of your plants and animals, drawings or 
deloriptions of intereliing ones; lauch books and pam- 
hlets as may have been printed in vour neighibourhood. 
Notices of new diſcoveries ‚iin nomenclature, properties 
(5 and hiſtory gt natural objocts, names of. all.ihe bota- 
2) ir 5991 131 vi 8 1 * 
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communicale this circular, eic. Alk me in return any 
thing in my power to beſtow, plants, animals, books, my 
works, etc. and be certain I [hall feel the greateft plea- 
sure in holding a corrcfpondence with yon, and being 
uſeful to you it any way you may point out. >» 
Gentlemen in all parts of the World! If we are al- 
ready united by a mutual love of nature, and pure zeal 
for the invefügation of the widefield of natural [ciences, 
let us firengilien the ties of our union, by a iriendly in- 
terconrfe and beneficial exchange of labours,. knowledge 
aud dilcoveries: I tender you the invitation, in full hope 
of meeting a fnitable return on your ſide; I have not 
laid all I might on the fubject, but if our purſuits are 
ſimilar, we ihall underſtand each other, and you may 
ealily fupply all my omilfions, by fancyiug yourlelf in 
my fituatıon, and remembering that I unite to the moſt 
glowing ardour for the knowledge of nature the moſt 
ardent Jdelire to promote its ſtudy by all the means in 
sy power i j 
Pelieve me therefore, forever, your fincere well 
wilher, coultant friend, and fellow adınirer of nalure, 
C. S. Rafinesque, 
. 
Notes. 
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1. I will add a liſt of all my works and tracts, for 
the information of thole who are not yet acquainted 
with any or the Whole. 
Defcription of four «new ſpecies of birds from Java, 
in the Bulletin des Sciences. Paris 1805. 21 
Several communications on birds and reptiles, to Mr. 
Dauphin of Paris, in his Hiftoire Naturelle des Reptiles, 
elc. 7 
Flornla Delawarica, or a Catalogue of the- Plants 
found in the ſtate of Delaware. This tract and the fol- 
lawing were. given to Dr. Barton in 1804, for infertion 
in his Medical and Phylical Journal, and he promiſed to 
do so, volume II, page 177; but never performed his 
promile. vo a 
Florula Columbica, or a Catalogue of the Plants 
found in the Dilirict of Columbia. 1804. 1 
Prolpectus of the Panphyſis Sicula. 1802. 
Profpectus of the New Genera and Species of North 
American Plants, and of the Natural Hiltory of the 
Mufhrooms of the United States. In the Mechcal Re- 
pehtory of New York, number 44, 1808. . 1 
Lelcription of Ten New Geuera and Sixty New Spe- 
cies cf Plants of the United States (September, 1807) in 
the Medical Repoſitory; number 44; 1808. 
New Properties of Ten American Planis, in the Me- 
dical Kejofilory. 
An Ellay on the Exotic Plants, which have been na- 
turalized, and now grow [pontaneoufly in the middle of 
New York, number 50, 1811. 
Enumeration of the Species of Callitriche and the 
American Species o Potamogeton. New York Medical Re- 
pofitory ‚number: 50, 1611. 0 223 
Caratteri di alcuni, etc. Defcriptions and Obſexvatiens 
on Sixty-TWOo New Genera and ‚Two Hundred and Se- 
venty Dwo New Species of Sicilian Plants and Animals. 
Cne volume, twenty plates, Palermo, 1810. tr N 
Indice D Ittiologia, etc... Index of Sicilian Ichthyolo- 
gy, about Three Hundred and Ninety Species including 
Keen New Genera and Forty-Five New Spe- 
cles, two plates. Meläna, 1810. 1 
Stetifica ı Hſica, etc, Phyſical Statiſtics of Sicily. 
2 Maps. Palermo, 1610. f rd 
