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Octr 12th OS 1780
If Anderson's paper on the establishment of Weights & Measures
is given in and published at the Royal Society, be sure you send it
me: if it is not to be due anything both send me also a Manuscript
copy.
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The boxes which came here by sea, with
Sambourski and which I thought he was to have franked, cost
me four pounds sterling.
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Answer to your letter dated May 9th Copies of Code as well as everything else to be
directed to Sir James Harris. Neither need they
be sealed up, but every thing private to be sealed in
packets within the box. My name only on these packets
but Sir James's only on the outside of the Box
2 <p. Well I will write immediately to Peake & Mosberry when
I have to say anything to them or to offer them
terms. I could place them both ehre I make no
doubt with a Salary of 100 a year at least and with other
great advantages, but unless they make me they shall
not have them at least I think so at present.
3
Agency is I dare to say at an end certainly unless
I can think of means of jockying Bar: Kl. one
letter being opened, another having miscarried and
together with the change of circumstances from the
visit of the Prince of Prussia and the death of D's put away added to the intrigues
of this said Bar. been the cause of this change. If I was much I could now
do him as much harm as I before thought of
doing him good but I have no such idea.
4
Franklin's method of seasoning Timber has been practised in England Holland and from thence communicated
to the English as the method practised
from May's experiments. It is however very different
and inferior in effect from this last mentioned
method. It is This experiment like most
others in the Navy languished in England and then
came over to languish still more here in Petersburg.
The use of the length height of tube to force the solution
into the pores is new to me, though analogous
to contrivances for similar purposes which I have had.
I should a piori doubt its effect as I see not
how the air is got out without which the solution
can not get in: if the fibres go the whole length
it must be at the bottom of the piece that the air
is driven out.
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Samuel Bentham |
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