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To Sir Joseph Banks Bart
President of the Royal Society.
Dr Sir
I retain a grateful Sense of your Kindness to me when in London. I wish to approve myself worthy of these Attentions by my assiduous pursuit of natural History, a Science which you Sir, so eminently advance and patronize.
My entomologic Labors have been considbly [considerably] retarded by other intervening Subjects which I have been unwilling to pass unnoticed.
The annexed solicits yr. kind acceptance, it is somewhat out of my usual Path; I hope therefore you will excuse inaccuracies; and if you esteem it worthy the Attention of the
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