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 and receives the univeral acknowledgments of all who profes or value its everal branches.

jutly admire that admidt a cloe attendance on the cares of your Profeion, in which You now fill the mot honourable Seat, You are indefatigably promoting the improvement of natural knowledge, by carrying on ome laudable deigns of your own, by aiting and encouraging others, and by adding new tores to that immene treaure, already brought into your extenive collection, of whatever is rare and valuable in nature or art.