Febr: the 12th 1694/5
Hon'd Sir,
I have a humble request to make you & the council of the Royal Society, which I should scarce have the confidence to offer, but that I am employ'd to do it in the name of the Philosophical Society at Dublin, which has cheifly subsisted & grown up by the kind encouragement & countenance it received from your illustrious assembly, we have set apart a place, & begun a collection of natural curiosities, such as our country affords, & are promised the contribution of severall ingenious men, but our chief hope is, that you woud be pleased to spare us out of your excellently furnished Museum such duplicates & specimens as may be no prejudice to it; we shall only use 'em for the same noble ends & purposes which you design, & make all the sutable returns which our poor kingdome may afford, & moreover acknowledge ourselves infinitely obliged.
Pardon this trouble from
Hon'd Sir,
your most humble Servant
St George Ashe
Addressed: For the Honourable Sir Robert Southwell, President of the Royal Society
Read Febr:20:1695
Ent'd in LB.11 part 2d pag. 38