Letter 0686

Chamberlayne writes that he will strive to be worthy of the Royal Society’s thanks. As such, he is trying much harder in his latest translation, even showing it to the Dutch ambassador. Chamberlayne discusses the translation and errata in the Philosophical Transactions. John Chamberlayne was a translator and editor specializing in modern languages which he studied at the University of Leiden. He translated works on many topics, was a fellow of the Royal Society, and published three works in the Philsophical Transactions (Reavley Gair, Chamberlayne, John (1668/91723), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2009 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/5060, accessed 30 May 2011]).