| Citation | Mr John Bernoulli Astronomer Royal and F R etc at Berlin as also Fellow of the Academies of Sciences at Bologna, Stockholm, Lyon and Marseille, of the Society for the Encouragment [sic] of arts etc at London and of the Society of Philosophers at Basle, etc a Gentleman well versed in astronomical and mathematical Knowledge, as it appears by his publications, particularly in the Memoirs and the Ephemeris of the academy of Berlin and by his Recueil pour les astronomes, being desirous of becoming Fellow of the Royal Society of London, we, whose names are underwritten, do recommend him, on our personal Knowledge as deserving that honour and likely to become an useful member |