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Giovanni Amici letter to André Melly
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Autograph letter signed (in Italian) by Giovanni Amici to Swiss-born entrepreneur, museum agent, and entomologist André Melly, discusses a microscope that Amici had built for Melly, and touches on the state of microscopy in the early nineteenth century including current prices. In the letter Amici also talks about how English physicist William Wollaston is "unwilling to believe in any observation made with the microscope" but forgives him due to Wollaston's eye and sight problems. Amici also asks Melly for the addresses of "famous botanists Dawson Turner...Robert Brown, William Roscoe, and William Ker, all members of the Linnean Society." The letter Includes a small drawing of and a small clipping about Amici.
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