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Copy Letter to Peter Jonas Bargius Jan. 6. 1790
member of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Stockholm
Hamilton, in the State of Massuchusetts, in America, January 6th 1790 nor in Dr. Cutler's [illegible]
I am directed to forward to you a Diploma, [illegible] of your being elected a Member of w. American Acad. of Arts and Sciences While the Acad. do them selves the honor of enroling your name on the lift of their members, they entertain the hope that it will not be [illegible] to you. It will afford them much pleasure to receive from you any informal you may think proper of the discoveries you have make of the works of nature on thin, or only of Containers. They will likewise readily acknowledge their obligatory for any other comm.
I have not the honor to be perfornally known to you, I will [illegible] the liberty to inform you that [inserted] I [end inserted} have, for several year,
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year employed my leisure hours in in the study of nature, particularly in Botanical [pursuits?] In the I Vol. of the Mem. of the Am. Academy of Arts and Sciences, was published a botanical paper wh. you have probably seen. This was much too hastly a production, when I had only [jst?] began to enter on that branch of Science. Since that time, more liesure [illegible] observation has enabled me to correct many errors in that paper. I now have it in contemplated to publish a work of considerable magnitude on the natural Productn. of the northern States of America.
I shall be happy to be honored with your Correspondence, or that of any other Gentleman in your Country on the subjects of natural Science
I have the honor to be Serv. your most obedient humble servant MC - L.L.D-Memb.
of the American Academy The [Phil. Socy?] at Philadelphia Medical Society [&c., &c. ?][illegible] M. Peter Jonas Bergius Memb.
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