
          letter has been lost for I recieved
 no answer. however, Sir, I will 
 be highly pleased to receive news
 of your health and your family's
 and also of the young gentleman
 whom I met at your house and
 who shewed me some curiosities
 of your fine city.


 You remember, perhaps that I had
 a great difficulty of hearing,
 I have been at Paris immediately
 after my return, and the Dr. after
 three [?] has cured me completely, 
 and I hear now as well as
 every body.


 I send you one exemplary of my
 "Essai sur l'histoire naturelle des 
 Marquises" and another for the
 Society of natural history of ny.
 I dont know if this the exact demonstrator
        