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papers in the Philosophical Transactions. The "Ornithology" 

 at which he had so greatly laboured, and which the loyal 

 zeal and friendship of an attached companionship prompted 

 John Ray to complete after his death, was published in 1676, 

 and amongst those who contributed pictures of birds is 

 mentioned his quondam fellow-traveller, Sir Philip Skippon. 

 Ray, says Dr. Derham, has left in the preface a beautiful 

 memorial of the estimation in which he held his friend, in 

 the summary there given of Willughby's character. The 

 influence of Willughby has been very great in ornithology, 

 but that it has been so, is in a great measure thanks to 

 Ray ; there is something remarkable, as well as very 

 touching, in the union of these two m-en. There is little 

 left which connects them with the place now, at the same 

 time there is nothing preposterous in the supposition that 

 there may be Gannets living on the Bass Rock now which 

 were there in Ray's time, for we know nothing of the ages 

 which birds attain to. 



24. " Geographiae Blavianae Volumen sextum," quo 

 Liber XII., XIII., Europse continentvr. Lahore Johannis 

 Blaeu. Amsterdam (1662). Folio. 



To the late Professor Newton I am indebted for making 

 and translating the following extracts from Blaeu's great 

 geographical work. Blaeu's sumptuous folio was published 

 by his sons in Latin, but not until long after his death, 



