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Goettingen, Jun. ye 2nd. 1795.
Sir
it is impossible for me to express how sensible
I am of the honour the American Academy of Arts
& Sciences did me by choosing me a Fellow of their
illustrious Body. I request Your kind favour of
presenting those sentiments of thankful acknowledgment
in the most obliging way to the highly merited Pre-
sident, the worthy & learned Vice president & the
other home members of the academy.
But in the same time You will exceedingly oblige
me by shewing me the means how I may prove in
any real way my gratitude to that noble Institute.
if, for instance, by sending over occasionaly new
& interesting literary performances in the Line of
natural history & medicine, published in my country,
particularly such pamphlets as would hardly find their
way to Your continent. Though the greatest part of
them appears in German, yet, as there are so many
of my countrymen settler in Your united States, &
even German newspapers are published there, I suppose,
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that this would be no objection.
Or, is there any hope that the 2nd vol. of the Memoirs
of the Academy will be published in the next or subsequent
Year, I should think myself very happy by offfering a paper
for it.
or, in case that there is a collection of natural curiosities
belonging to the academy, I would sent [sic] over occasionally
some specimens of minerals particularly remarkable & more
or less exclusively proper to our country. as for inst. the
Boracites (calcareous Earth united with boracic acid) from
Luneburg. the Cross-crystal (pierre de croix or Schorl
cruciforme of Romé de Lisle) from the Harz &c &c.
I want only a Hint from You Sir, & shall then
forward immediately a parcel under Your adress to
the care of my respected friend Dr. Lettsom in London.
Believe me Sir with the greatest Regard & Esteem
Your
obedient humble servant
Joh. Fredrik Blumenbach |
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