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This was the only reason Fordyce assigned - I must own I do
not see any great force in it. Nor in point of fact has any such been rule
been pursued. Short who died a few years ago F.R.S. was an
Optician — Watchmakers there have been several. It is There
true however was a Frenchman however excluded a week or two ago; and
if I may depend on Fordyce, on a similar ground. His
name is D'Amitiè; and the objection against him was that
he was a maker of glass of the sort that is used for Telescopes.
Whether there was any other objection to him I have not
heard.

On the other hand Nairne is known to advantage by in the Society
by many several papers of his that have been published
in the Transactions. He has more names to his Certificate
than ever were known to have been annexed to a Certificate
before; amongst the rest those of some people (Dr Solanders
for one) who I understand intend ballotting against their own
recommendation. I never heard of any personal objection against
Nairne: but he apprehends himself to have incurred the displeasure
of Banks (whose irascible and vindictive temper
stands upon record in the Preface to Parkinson's publication, in
the affair of Cooke's last expedition with Titer, in which Banks
you know, had it not been for a pique of his was to have been




Identifier: | JB/538/033/002
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 538.

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1776-06-12

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538

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033

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002

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Correspondence

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Penner

Jeremy Bentham

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