TO THE MOST RENOWNED AND MOST ESTEEMED

LORD

John Hoskyns,

KNIGHT & BARONET

Vice-President of the Royal Society

MOST WORTHY.

Most Esteemed Lord,

The honor of your name among the Learned, not undeserved, and your singular benevolence toward the Royal Society, as well as your singular Erudition, have not long kept in suspense the mind to which I might dedicate these works of mine, whatever they may be.