cutler-letters_peter-jonas-bergius_1790-01-06_02

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 conside-
rable 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.