Dr Sir
I have just time to thank you for yr favor & to say that Mr White will print the Hist. of Whales. As a Bookseller undertakes it I drop my design of giving more plates. I will send you half a dozen copies. please to say how I must remit the money for the magazines &c. Have you my syn. quad? also [...] Zool. I will not offer it till the 3d Ed. appears. Inclose to Mr Roger Mostyn Bart M.P. Bruton street London.
Mr Paton
Custom House
Edinburgh
FreeHotham
Mr Paton
Custom House
Edinburgh