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when it desired that the most celebrated investigators of natural history of our age in Germany—LAURENTIUS HEISTER, the Helmstedt Physician; JOHANNES FRIDERICUS WEISMANN, Primary Professor of Medicine at Erlangen; PETRUS CHRISTIANUS WAGNER, Archiatrist and Councilor at the Bayreuth court; CHRISTIAN GOTTLIEB LUDWIG, the Pride of my Leipzig; and YOU, MOST OUTSTANDING FATHER-IN-LAW—be inscribed as its members original: *), and hence it has increased its own splendor not once, but many times. 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 by the fame of SUCH GREAT NAMES. I implore GOD with most ardent prayers that He may wish your life to be long, your health perennial, and that He may preserve YOU for a long time for the advancement of the medical art and natural science, and for the solace and health of mortals, and for the joy and utility of all YOUR own.

*) See the Catalog of Illustrious Foreign Men, members of the Florentine Botanical Academy, added to Xaverius Manetti’s Florentine Garden. Florence, 1751. 8vo.