64 MEMOIR OF 



consequence of the favourable reception the 

 Catalogus Plantarum met with, Mr Ray resolved 

 to extend his acquaintance with English plants ; 

 and having already taken one excursion for this 

 purpose alone in the month of August, 1658, he 

 set out on another in company with Mr Wil- 

 lughby in July, 1661. They started from Cam- 

 bridge on the 26th, and travelled northward, 

 proceeding through Huntingdon, Stilton, Peter- 

 borough, Lincolnshire, Yorkshire, the Bishoprick 

 of Durham, Northumberland, and so into Scot- 

 land as far as Glasgow and Stirling, and thence 

 back again through Cumberland and Westmore- 

 land to Cambridge. They seem to have observed 

 whatever was worthy of notice, churches, cathe- 

 drals, monuments, inscriptions, customs, natural 

 productions of various kinds, trades, commerce, 

 &c. still, howevei, keeping their botanical pur- 

 suits chiefly in view, and in which they discovered 

 numerous plants. They finished their journey 

 August 30, 166L This, with other of their 

 excursions for scientific purposes, is published 

 in Dr Derham's Life of Ray, under the name of 

 Itineraries. In the Philosophical Letters there is 

 one* from Mr Ray to Mr Willughby, dated, " Coll. 

 Trinity, Feb. 25, 1659," but which was more 

 probably written some time in the year 1660 or 

 1661, in which Mr Ray submits to him "one or 

 two of his designs," desiring his " sentence and 

 opinion of the whole ; and then, in case of hi* 



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