The Preface. 
jection in my way, That the firt projectors feldome 
bring’ their bufinels to any good end: yet Lalfo knew, 
That if Men fhould ftay foran Example in every thing; 
nothing extraordinary would ever be done. 
But notwithftanding the reafonableneß of the De- 
fign; yet I did not forget, that, in refpcét of the 
Undertaker, there might be Impar congreffus. And there- 
fore, before I had ventured very far, inthe Year 1668, 
I imparted it to my Brother-in-Law, the Learned Dr. 
Henry Samplon, now Fellow of the Colledge of Phyfi- 
cians in London. Who not only very well liked the 
fame; but alfo excited me to a vigorous and accurate 
profecution of it. Which he did, partly, by mentioning 
a very pertinent paflage of Dr. Glifon, in the Preface to 
his Book de Hepate, (a) which I had not then read. 
Plante quoque in hunc cenfum (fc. Anatomicum) veniunt ; 
varia enim Partium texturä, (> differentiis confiant : & proz 
culdubio, ex acurata earundem diffectione, utiles valde obfer- 
vationes nobis exurgerent : præflaretque in illis ( inferioris 
licet ordinis Y rebus examinandis operam impendere, quam in 
tranferibendis ut fæpe fit,aliorum laboribus, inutiliter etatem 
tranfigere. Quippe hoc pacto, ignavarum apum more, aliena 
duntaxat alvearia expilamus nihilque bono publico adjicimus) 
After Ihad finithed the Firf Book, that I might know 
the fenfe alfo of other Learned Men, whether the fteps 
I had already taken, would warrant me to proceed any 
further: I put fome part of it into the fame Hand; 
who, in the Year 1670, communicated the fame to 
Mr. Oldenburge , then Secretary to the Royal Society: 
and after he had read it over, it was, upon his motion, de- 
livered to that excellent Perfon Dr. John Wilkins then 
Bifhop of Chefter; who produced it at a Meeting of the 
Royal Society, and defired,they might fee the reft. Which, 
or the greateft part, being alfo prefented to them,the Right 
Honourable the Lord Vicount Brouncker, then Prefident 
of the Royal Society, was pleafed to perufe the fame. 
Prefently, after which, at a Meeting of the Council 
of 
