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labour. And even thefe are not of any great ufe 
to us, except the firft two or three years, to read 
and underftand fome eafy books of the Chridian doc- 
trine compofed by our fathers. For, in order to 
read the more difficult Chinefe books, and efpecially 
their daffies, we make ufe of Chinefe vocabularies, 
which explain their characters and hard words in 
the Chinefe tongue, but in a plain and eafy manner, 
much as the Latin dictionaries of Stephens, Nizo- 
lius, <&c. If we could be informed, that fuch Chi- 
nefe vocabularies would prove agreeable to you, gen- 
lemen, we could eafily fend them. 
As touching fpecimens of butterflies, infeCts, ffiells, 
&c. Father Dincarville, a Frenchman, is the mod 
knowing amongft us in thefe matters ; and as he has 
the care of fending fuch things to France, he under- 
takes to fend you at the fame time fpecimens of 
whatever he can procure : and indeed he fent fome 
the lad year 1749. 
I am the Royal Society’s in general, and in par- 
ticular, 
S I R, 
Your mod obedient fervant, 
Auguftin Hallerftein, 
Sf 2 
LI. 
