your leifure. This young gentleman Is a confider- 
able merchant, efpecially veiled in tin affairs, with a 
great ffare of quicknefs and underllanding in the fu- 
lion of metak j and I refer it to you, whether it may 
not be proper to introduce him at the next meeting of 
the Royal Society, by your means, and requeft him 
, there to fliew that rarcTpecimcn which he carries with 
him to town. 
He, indeed, Intends (you’ll find by his letter) to 
bring it back with him , but if this be' only to let me 
have- the infpedion 6f-it, and, through my hands, to 
depofit it in your Mufeum, I fliall eafily difpenfe 
v;ith every ceremony of that kind ; and J write him 
by this or next poff, that (as it is fmall, and may mif- 
carry, or be mifiaid in fuch long journies) I intreat 
him to let it reft, for the fatisfaffion of the doubtful, 
in your Mufeum ; and, as I hope to prevail,' let it re- 
main with the fample I fent, but in Mr. Rofewarne ’s 
name. 
As every acquifition in natural hiftory will, I know, 
be very acceptable to you and the gentlemen of the 
Society, for whom I have the greateft refped:, I make 
the lefs apology for giving you this trouble, and 
remain, 
S I R, 
» 
Your moft obedient fervant, 
William Borlafe. 
Received 
