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THE RIGHT HONORABLE 
SIR JOSEPH BANKS, BART., K.B., 
PRESIDENT OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY, 
85c., $C., 8$C. 
My Dear Sir, 
I feel a peculiar propriety in dedicating 
this little work to you, and, unworthy as it 
is in itself of the honor of being sent into 
the world under the sanction of a name like 
yours, I trust that you will not refuse to ac¬ 
cept it as a proof of the esteem and respect 
of the author. I have two particular reasons 
for being anxious it should thus appear: the 
one, because it is right that the earliest 
efforts of my pen should be inscribed to 
him, who, by proposing and facilitating my 
