80 MEMOIR OF 



before they had fully weighed and considered so 

 new a subject, as that was, at that time, a part of 

 learning but little studied and cultivated, thac 

 lay confused, and without any, or no better than 

 no method, but which those two great men so 

 cleared up, methodized, and advanced, thatto them 

 may be ascribed a great deal of that perfection to 

 which Natural History is now arrived." 



In the year 1667, Mr Willughby being in the 

 thirty-second year of his age, and still intent on 

 prosecuting his researches into Natural History, 

 undertook another journey in company with Mr 

 Ray, into the west of England. 



They set out from Mr Willughby's seat at 

 Middleton Hall, on June 25th, and travelled 

 through the counties of Worcester, Hereford, 

 Gloucester, Somerset, and Devon, into Cornwall, 

 as far as the Larid's-end, where they arrived August 

 17th, and thence returned through Hampshire to 

 London on September 13th following. In this 

 journey, they described many fowls, fishes, and 

 plants, and took notes of the mines and method 

 of making salt, &c. 



So great and deserved was the reputation which 

 Mr Ray had now obtained, that he was in this 

 year invited to become a member of the Royal 

 Society, and was admitted a fellow November 7th. 

 In the year 1668, in the thirty-third of his 

 age, Mr Willughby married Emma, second 

 daughter and co-heiress of Sir Thomas Bernard, 

 and by whom he had three children, Francis, 

 Cassandra, and Thomas. 



