An oration, pronounced before the Society of Black Friars [electronic resource] : at their anniversary festival, in the city of New-York, on Monday, the 11th of November, 1793. By Samuel Latham Mitchill, M.D. F.R.S.E. Professor of chemistry and botany in Columbia College, member of the Philosophical Society of Philadelphia, one of the foreign associates of the Royal Society of Arts and Sciences at Cape-François, Fellow of the Medical and Natural History Societies of Edinburgh, secretary of the Agricultural Society of New-York, &c. &c. (Published at the request of the Society.) [Seven lines of verse from Polwhele].