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LETTER IL From the fame. 

 S I R, 



IS Majefty the Emperor has been pleafed to receive in the moft gracious manner your 

 letter of the 12th September, in which you lay your moft humble thanks at the foot of his 

 throne. 



You have my free permiflion, Sir, to make fuch ufe as you think beft of my opinion on the 

 fuperior excellence of your work ; though my letter was not intended for the public, yet I never 

 fhall difavow my fentiments, and indeed I fhall feel the moft lively pleafure in teftifying to the 

 whole world how much I am interefted in your undertaking, fo well calculated to illuftrate and 

 facilitate the ftudy of natural hiftory. 



If at any time you have reafon to think that there is any objecT: of natural hiftory in the 

 Imperial Cabinet, of which you wifh for an exact, copy, I will do my endeavours to furniih you 

 with it, executed with all poffible accuracy. 



I am, with the moft fincere regard, 



Vienna, > 



November 22 d, 1787. Your moft obedient and moft humble femnt ' ' 



B O R N. 



Mr. Thomas Martyn, Great Marlborough -Street, London. 



TETTER III. From the fame. 

 S I R, 



T is with extreme fatisfaction, and the moft lively fenfe of your kindnefs, that I have received 

 the fécond volume of your excellent work on the Shells of the South Seas, and the proof-fheets 

 of your work on the Coleopterous InfeEts. 



I have fent the copy defigned for the Emperor to his Majefty's Cabinet; for he is himfelf at 

 prefent with the army, and will not return till the beginning of winter. 



Your Infiitution, Sir, promifes to pofterity the greateft advantages in the ftudy of natural 

 hiftory. If paintings of all the organized bodies were executed with equal accuracy and elee-ance, 

 we might without regret bid adieu to thofe cabinets, which are now collected with fuch coft, and 

 the prefervation of which is at once fo troublefome and expenfive. 



Continue, Sir, to enrich the world with your productions in literature and fcience, and to 

 honour me with your efteem. 



I am, with the moft fincere regard, 



Vienna ' 



cv „ ' Your moft obedient humble fervant, 



June ic, 1788. 



J • • ' IGNATIUS BORN. 



Mr. Thomas Martyn, Great Marlborough-Street, London. 



