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REPORTS ON THE STATE OF SCIENCE, ETC. 
Appendix. 
Short extracts from specimen translations prepared by, or under the auspices of, 
the Classical Association, the British Esperanto Association, and the International 
Language (Ido) Society of Great Britain. 
Leiter from a Lead Merchant. 
ENGLISH. 
We enclose herewith four cardboard 
boxes containing thiosulphate of lead 
such as is used by match makers; will 
you submit these to any likely buyers and 
find out if they are disposed to purchase ? 
Our price to-day is £90 per ton f.o.b. 
London, and the price will rise or fall with 
the price of pig lead, less 24 per cent. 
discount for prompt cash. 
We also send by parcel post four 
sample, tins of lead residues which we 
wish you to offer to lead smelters and 
especially to those who have blast 
furnaces. The residues are a mixed lot 
of slags, lead ashes, fumes, test bottoms 
and so forth, and will average 50 per cent. 
lead. We offer these at the price of pig 
lead on the date of delivery f.o.b. London 
less five units and £5 returning charge. 
Kindly wire on receipt of the samples. 
We have about 100 tons to offer you. If 
you are a buyer please arrange for cash 
against bill of lading. We will effect 
insurance through your shipping agents, 
and you should instruct your lightermen 
to store in a bonded warehouse. 
On receipt of your cable of the 13th, 
we rang up Lloyds and got the policy 
underwritten. You have not sent us the 
charter-party and we cannot do any- 
thing further without it. 
If you prefer it we will draw on you a 
three months’ bill for the residues and 
get it discounted by bill brokers here. 
LATIN. * 
Cum hae epistula simul inclusas 
mittimus 4 capsulas cartonaceas Thio- 
sulphatum Plumbi continentes, quale ad 
fabricam flammiferorum usitatum est. 
Has ubicunque emptoribus placituras 
esse creditis, ut offeratis precamur. 
Pretium hodie quod postulamus erit 
nonaginta librae Sterlingae pro tonna 
Anglicé mercis ad Londinium in navem 
impositae. Hoc tamen pretium auge- 
bitur minueturque una cum pretio Plumbi 
rudis; pro praesenti autem pecunia 
deductio fiet 2} p.c. 
Praeterea per Postam Portitoriam 
quattuor capsulas stanneas mittimus 
exemplares, Residua plumbea continentes 
quae veno offerre volumus Plumbi 
fusoribus, iis praecipue qui fornaces 
flabiles habent. Haec Residua sunt 
mixta ex Scoria plumbi, cineribus et 
fumis, ut vocant, plumbicis, fractis 
crucibulorum fundis, aliis rebus eiusdem 
generis: per haec in universum aestimata 
plumbi proportio quinquaginta part. 
cent. erit. Haec vendimus Plumbi Rudis 
pretio quo die in navem ad Londinium 
imposita erunt, pretii tamen huius 5 p.e. 
retro-fusionis nomine remittimus, et 
5 libras sterlingas. Receptis his exemplis, 
nobis telegraphice nuntietis precamur. 
Cirea centum tonnas Anglicas venales 
habemus. Si emere voltis, praesentem 
pecuniam pro Catalogo Onerario sol- 
vendam vos curetis velimus. Periculi 
marini Securationem nos curabimus per 
proxenos vestros navicularios. In 
horreis anteportoriis merces deponendi 
negotium vestris scaphariis dandum est. 
Nuntio vestro telegraphico diei 13mi 
accepto Societatem Lloyds certiorem 
fecimus per telephonam, periculique 
marini eius summae praedes constitui- 
mus. Contractum partiarium a vobis 
nondum accepimus, sine quo nihil am- 
plius facere possumus. 
Si vos mavoltis, pro Residuis illis trium 
mensium chirographum a vobis accipie- 
mus idque inter chirographorum negotia- 
tores venale proponemus. 
[* The writers of the Latin version state-that they thought it their business to 
express completely the full meaning of the English put before them, though they 
also thought it could have been condensed with advantage. ] 
