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To the President of the Royal Society of London.
Honoured Sir
A zeal for the improvement of Nat. History, and a wish to contribute something new, must plead in my behalf, for the liberty, or rather, the presumption of this address -
I have been in these Colonies more than two years, which time I have entirely devoted to the procuring of various subjects; & in my excursions up the different rivers & creeks, I have met with a great variety; many of which, I presume, are rare and valuable. I have about 300 coloured drawings from nature, & nearly the same number of sketches in black-lead (which were done before I could procure colours;) with descriptions to the whole. I have always been disappointed in suitable paper, and the colours I have are not of the best quality; the former is an article that soon injures in this
Sept 18