| Citation | The President of the imperial academy of the curious of nature, and first Professor of Physick of the University of Halle, Dr Andreas Elias Buchner, being desirous of the honour of being received a foreign member of the Royal Society at London, I humbly beg leave to recommend him, and to testify his great desert, his extensive learning in every branch of natural and medical sciences, and his unwearied and sucessfull [sic] labours in promoting them |