Specimen of a Historical and Critical Library of Rare Physical and Medical Books

when it wished to enroll among its members the most celebrated investigators of natural history of our age in Germany, Laurentium Heisterum Lorenz Heister, physician of Helmstedt, Joh. Fridericum Weismannum Johann Friedrich Weismann, primary professor of medicine at Erlangen, Petrum Christianum Wagnerum Peter Christian Wagner, archiatrist and councilor at the court of Bayreuth, Christianum Gottliebium Ludwig Christian Gottlieb Ludwig, the pride of my Leipzig, and you, most excellent father-in-law, See the catalog of the most illustrious foreign men, members of the Florentine Botanical Academy, added by Xaverius Manetti, who is secretary of the Academy, in the Florentine Garden (Viridarium Florentinum). Florence 1751. and thereby increased its own splendor more than once. I therefore congratulate you from my heart on this new honor, and I also congratulate this Academy on the splendor it has acquired for itself from the fame of such great names. I implore God with the most ardent prayers that he may wish your life to be long-lived, your health perennial, and that he may preserve you for the advancement of the medical art and natural science, for the comfort of mortals—