THE RIGHT HONORABLE
SIR JOSEPH BANKS, BART., K .B .,
PR ES ID EN T OF TH E ROYAL SOCIETY,
fyc., fyc., Sçé.
M y D ear S ir ,
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 accept
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
