DEDICATION. 
lent and valuable Governor, JOHN WIN-' 
THROE the younger, would have retir’d to 
his new-born Colony, and there haveeftablifh’d 
that Society, for promoting Natural Know- 
ledge *, which thefe Gentlemen had formed, 
as it were, in Embryo among themfelves ; but 
which afterwards receiving the Protection of 
King CHARLES 11. obtain’d the Style 
of R oyal, and hath lince done fo much 
Honour to the Britiflo Nations , as to be 
imitated by the feveral European Princes , 
who defir’d to be efleem’d the Patrons of 
Learning. 
When the Royal Society was thus founded, 
it was his conftant Care to fhew a peculiar 
Regard to promote the Delign of its Inftitu- 
tion, by fending over many Specimens of 
the curious natural Productions of thofe 
Countries, and by communicating in Writ- 
ing his Remarks upon them ; fome of which 
grace the earlieft of our TranfaCtions : And 
by a Letter from Mr. Oldenburg , written by 
Order of the Royal Society , Mr. Winthrop 
* Which not taking p’ace , his Father frft founded the 
College at Cambridge in New-England, Jince known by the 
Name of Harvard-College. 
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