It gave me great Pleasure to hear, that your magnanimous Empress had plac’d you at the Head of your Academy of Sciences. It was doing Honour to Learning. With this you will receive the second Volume of the Transactions of our Philosophical Society, who hope it may be favourably accepted as a Testimony of their Respect for yours. With great and sincere Esteem and Respect, I am, Madame your most obedient &c