( vi > object which first associated you together, the Extension and Promotion of the study of Natural History. I observe, with infinite satisfaction, the success which has already attended your exertions ; and anticipate with pleasure the advantages which are likely to accrue from a continuation of them. May your labours in that department of science be long useful; and may they be always as highly valued as I value them. Accept of my best wishes for the pro sperity of that institution, to which I am proud to have the honour of belonging; and believe me to be, with sentiments of the greatest respect, Your most obedient And very humble servant, Charles Anderson.. 4-,J, r . - - Leith, April 20. 1809.