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156 The Floral King.
To P. ELvius.
“ Sir,
“‘T consider with reason that one of the greatest
advantages which the Academy possesses, is that the
Royal Academy has obtained permission to send a
person gratis on behalf of the East India Company
to an unknown part of the world; if all other means
should possibly ever be debarred, this one alone can
maintain the lustre of the Academy.
‘* Besides, this is just the privilege which can give
the Academy lustre and reputation throughout the
world; this alone may compel foreigners to learn
and read the treatises, and to make them indispen-
sable to men of learning. This advantage has
never been possessed by any Academy of Science;
this solitary privilege does more than all that the
great Louis XIV. expended on Tournefort, Plumier,
Trevillée, Lignon, Surian, Lafiteau, whom he sent
to the West Indies to botanize, for this will be done
honestly. Thus, really, the Royal Academy owes
more praise to him who has procured this advantage
than ever the Parisian Academy did to Louis XIV.
‘May God avert from the Academy, that the
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