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of " Collections for an Athenae Cantab," (now in 

 the British Museum,) which was intended to have 

 been to Cambridge, what Wood's Athenae Oxo- 

 nienses et Fasti, is to Oxford^ the following 

 passage occurs: " Fra. Willughby, A.M. Col. 

 Trinity, 1659, A.B. 16. Mr Willughby was 

 Mr James Duport' s pupil at Trinity College, to 

 whom, and three others, he, Mr Duport, dedicated 

 his Gnomologia, 1660. BAKER." 



Now, the only mention of the name Duport, 

 in any possible relation to Mr Willughby, is that 

 which occurs in Dr Derham's Life of Mr Ray, 

 page 3. ; in the following words, " When he, 

 (that is, Mr Ray,), went to Trinity, he had the 

 happiness to have Dr Duport for his tutor, a man 

 well known for his learning, particularly for his 

 great skill in Greek, which he gave the world 

 good proof of in his Homerical Translations of 

 Job, and other Hagiographa." 



In Chalmers's Biographical Dictionary, the 

 only instance of the name James Duport, is of 

 this Dr James Duport, as appears by the tran- 

 slations of the Old Testament, which are in that 

 account ascribed to him. Neither is any other 

 Duport mentioned, except one John Duport, of 

 the year 1580. 



And in the Graduati Cantabrigienses, the only 

 instance of any one of the name Duport, who, 

 previously to the year 1787, had graduated in 

 that University, is noticed in these words, 

 " Duport, James, S.T.P. per literas regias, 1661." 

 In Chalmers's Dictionary, it is said of him, that 



