To the Right Honourable 



LORD VISCOUNT BROUNCKER, 



PRESIDENT OF 



THE ROYAL SOCIETY. 



My Lord, 



I HAVE, in obedience to your Lordship, and the irresistible suffrages 

 of that Society over which you preside, resigned these Papers to be 

 disposed of as you think fit. I hear your Lordship's sentence is, they 

 should be made public. Why should not a thousand things of infinitely 

 more value, daily enriching their collection, (and which would better 

 justify the laudable progress of that Assembly,) be oftener produced, as 

 some of late have been ? This, my Lord, would obviate all unkind 

 objections, and cover the infirmities of the present Discourse, with 

 things indeed worthy our Institution. But, as I am to obey your Lord- 

 ship's commands, so both your Lordship and the Society, are accounts 

 able for publishing the imperfections of. 



My Lord, 



Your Lordship's and 



Their most obedient Servant, 



April 29, 1675. J. EVELYN. 



