To the Right Honourable

LORD VISCOUNT BROUNCKER,

PRESIDENT OF

THE ROYAL SOCIETY.

My Lord,

I Have, in obedience to your Lordship, and the irresistible suffragesof that Society over which you preside, resigned these Papers to bedisposed of as you think fit. I hear your Lordship’s sentence is, theyshould be made public. Why should not a thousand things of infinitelymore value, daily enriching their collection, (and which would better

justify the laudable progrefs of that Alsembly) be oftener produced, assome of late have been ? This, my Lord, would obviate all unkindobjections, and cover the infirmities of the present Discourse, withthings indeed worthy our Institution. But, as I am to obey your Lord-ship’s commands, so both your Lordship and the Society, are accountablefor publishing the imperfections of,

My Lord,

Your Lordship’s and

Their most obedient Servant,

April, 29, 1675.

J. EVELYN.