I have just written to Mr. Lassonne1 informing him I had approached the Royal Society of Medicine through its permanent secretary, Mr. Vicq d’Azyr, with a view to establishing a correspondence between that society and the Boston college of medicine in New England. Mr. Vicq d’Azyr paid me the honor of a visit and brought a very pleasing reply.2

Please thank your society again for me, sir, pending the time when the Boston college of medicine does so itself.

I am respectfully, sir, your very humble and very obedient servant