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Dedication
mands and receives the univerſal acknowledgments of all who profeſs or value its ſeveral branches.
They juſtly admire that admidſt a cloſe attendance on the cares of your Profeſſion, in which You now fill the moſt honourable Seat, You are indefatigably promoting the improvement of natural knowledge, by carrying on ſome laudable deſigns of your own, by aſſiſting and encouraging others, and by adding new ſtores to that immenſe treaſure, already brought into your extenſive collection, of whatever is rare and valuable in nature or art.
