“ My Lord, fter I had dedicated the First Volume of these Philosophical Occurrences to the R. Society, to whose service I have dedicated my self, I thought it my next duty to present the Second to your Lordship, who have for so many years with so high and universal an Applause presided in that Illustrious Assembly, and there given full proof both of the vast extent of your knowledg, and the incomparable solidity of your judgment in all the various Arguments and Matters there produced, observed, experimented and discoursed of. ”