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MR. JAMES GREGORIE, 1675. 23
by truth. Whateuer you judge me capable of to serve you in these parts,
you may freely command,
Sir,
Your very humble and faithfull servant,
Henry Oldenburg, Soc. Eeg. Secret.
Tor Sir George Makenzie, knight, at Edinburg — These.
Recommended to the care of Mr. James Gregory.
1 4. Mr. James Gregorie, Professor of Mathematics, Edinburgh University,
to Sir George Mackenzie, Lord Tarbat, with the preceding letter from
the Secretary of the Eoyal Society enclosed.
Edinburgh, S June 1675.
My Lord, — This is onlie to convoy the enclosed to your Lordship from
the Secretarie of the R Society, by whose letter to mee I perceive they ar
werie desirous to entertein a correspondence with yov. I have received
verie cordial thanks for these letters yov wer pleased to honour mee with,
and am intreated by them to be as instrumentall as I can in continuing this
correspondence which they have begun. I need not use any motive with
your Lordship for this effect, seeing yov know much better than I can tell
yov what advantage learning may reape by such correspondence, which in
thes is the only aim of,
My Lord,
Your Lordships most humble and most obliged servant,
J. Gregorie.
For my Lord Tarbot at Tarbot in Eoss — these.