1802.
To SIR JOSEPH BANKS, Bart.
PRESIDENT OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY, &c.
Receive, Sir, as a small testimony of my high respect for a Character rendered illustrious in the paths of Science, this plain recital of Facts, and first publication, derived from authentic sources, on a subject in which You have declared Yourself to feel the most lively interest; and which must interest every thinking mind, delighting in the investigation of physical causes, or disposed “to look through Nature up to Nature’s God.”
Your much obliged,
And humble Servant,
REMBRANDT PEALE.