.142 Intelli<fence and Miscellaneous Articles. 



is added, " An Account of the Travels of V. Williighby through Spain, 

 and A Collection of Travels into the Eastern Countries;" ACollection 

 of English Proverbs and unusual Provincial ^A'ords ; Dittionarium 

 Trilingue ; An Itinerary through England; Translation of Bishop 

 Wilkins's real Character; various Sermons and Theological Works. 

 The work published by Tvlr. F. Wdlughby, under the title of Orni- 

 thologicE libri tres, &c. was known to be principally by Ray. In 

 the Philosophical Transactions were printed, among other papers. 

 On the Manner in which Spiders project their Threads; On the Dis- 

 section of a Porpoise ; On the Swimming Bladders of Eish ; On the 

 Effects of Poisonous Roots, and the Virtues of the Leaves of Hem- 

 lock ; and Observations (1699j made on the Comet that appeared at 

 Rome ;" and the last of his works which he should mention was 

 " The Wisdom of God manifested in the Creation." This had been 

 very frequently reprinted, and was clearly the prototype of a late ce- 

 lebrated book on the same subject. He had read the work of Ray 

 with infinite delight, and it was alike an honour to his head and to his 

 heart. But although his productions were so numerous, it was by 

 their excellence that they commanded attention. — Ray was the first 

 who reduced Natural History to a system, and prepared the way for 

 those more perfect arrangements which have since iiad so salutary an 

 influence on its cultivalion. It was to his penetrating genius and in- 

 defatigable exertions that the civilized world was indebted for many 

 most important discoveries. If he did not himself always arrive at 

 the goal, he pointed out the road ; and it was to his pursuing the 

 course he had commenced, that we owed oiu' present advanced state 

 in many particulars of Natural History. Haller felt how much he owed 

 to Ray, and he termed him " the greatest botanist in the memory of 

 man." Ray very early distinguished himself. While at college he 

 acquired a high fame, and some of the exercises he performed there 

 have been found to be worthy of preservation even to this period : 

 they formed the foundation of some of his late and important works. 



" Of this inestimable writer," says Stiliingfleet in his ' Calendar of 

 Flora,' " whose works do honour to our nation, as a late disciple of the 

 great Swedish Naturalist justly observes, I cannot help saying further, 

 that no writer till his time ever advanced all the branches of Natural 

 History so much as that sagacious, diligent, English observer, whose 

 systematical spirit threw a light on every thing he undertook, and 

 contributed not a little to those great and wonderful improvements 

 which have since been introduced." 



He was invited to become a member of the Royal Society in 1667; 

 and he happily lived in amity with some of the most able and most 

 virtuous men of his age. It was to do justice to tiie memory of such 

 a man that they were then assembled, and he would not longer de- 

 tain them from drinking with gratitude and veneration to the memory 

 of the disciple of Bacon and friend of Locke, the intimate friend 

 and contemporary of Willughby, and the precursor of Haller and 

 LinniEus. 



After toasts to " The Memory of Linnaeus," and " The Improve- 

 ment of Natural History," — 



Mr. 



