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              Sir Humphrey Davy

Dear Sir

From your last letter as [[well?]] as from the former one I fear the wages of the Royal Society have been misrepresented to you.

[[?]] the whole of your paper cannot be read, yet a sufficient part of it may be read to give an idea of its contents to the Society in this session & it may be submitted to the committee of papers in [[?]] & published in the Transaction in the Vo now printing.    All the papers now before the Society