DEDICATION. 
was in a particular mariner invited to take 
upon him the Charge of being the chief 
Correlpondent of the Royal Society in the 
IV eft, as Sir Phi liber to Vernatti was in the 
Eajl-Indies *. 
You, Sir, have imitated the Example of 
your worthy Anceftor: Your Regard to the 
Royal Society fhew’d itfelf from your Youth ; 
you having fent to England many rare 
Curiodties for the Mufeum of the Royal > So- 
ciety, which, although by the Difingenuity 
of the Pilot they mifs’d their Port, and were 
not laid up in the intended Repoftory , are 
home of them to be feen in a recent Mufeum 
now at Cambridge. 
When the Injudice and Ingratitude of a 
defig'ning Party in Power among that very 
People , whereof the IV I NTH R 0 PS have 
always been in the mod drift Senfe the 
Fathers , the PATRES PATRIAE, had 
mod Cruelly driven you from your Family 
* In a Letter from Mv. Oldenburg, Aug. 3. 1 < 55 4.. 
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