

TOTHE 
Right Honourable 
WILLIAM 
Lord ViCount BROUN CKER, 
PRESIDENT 
Royal Society. 
MY LORD, 
YUL RNA N E. Reafon why I Dedicate the following 
_ Difcourfes to Your Lordthip, is, For that by 
Your great und undeferved Refpetts, You have 
obliged me to do no lefs. 
= Another, my Lord, is, Becaufe I could 
not but Publickly return Your Lordthip 
Thanks, for minding the Royal Society of fo good a Way, 
they are lately refolued upon, for the Management of a 
great part of their Bufinefs. Wherein, my Lord, I do more 
than prefume, that I alfo fpeak the Senfe of the whole So- 
ciety ; I think, not any one excepted. 
I may with the fame Confidence intimate, my Lotd, 
how happy they account themfelves, in having a Perfon 
fo fit to prefide their Affairs, as Your Lordthip. The 
Largenefs of your Knowledge , the Exatlne{s of Your Fudg- 
ment , the Evennefs of Your Comport ; being fome of thofe 
necefjary Qualifications, which His Mayjelty had in His 
Eye (as right well underftanding what He did) when 
He fixed His Choice upon Your Lordhhip. 
I know, my Lord, that there are fome men, who have 
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