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Iii a letter to Dr Tancred Robinson, dated 

 February 18, 1684, Mr Ray tells him that he had 

 extracted out of Mr Willughby's papers, revised, 

 supplied, methodized, and fitted for the press, the 

 Ichthyologia. Dr Tancred Robinson communi- 

 cated it to the Royal Society ; and the members 

 of that learned body, thinking that so good a 

 work was worthy of being published, " did, by the 

 help of Bishop Fell, get it printed at the Theatre 

 at Oxford, the Royal Society bearing the charge, 

 and the cuts being engraved at the cost of divers 

 worthy members of that learned body. The 

 reason why none of Mr Willughby's family afforded 

 pecuniary assistance towards this work as to the 

 former, may have been, that the widow of Mr 

 Willughby was now married to Sir Josiah Child, 

 and that both his sons were still very young. This 

 book, although fewer materials were left for it 

 than for the Ornithology, owing partly no doubt 

 to the loss of Mr Willughby's papers, containing 

 his observations on fishes, while abroad, is also 

 frequently included by Mr Ray as one amongst 

 those several kinds of creatures, birds, beasts, 



affectu mutuo complectaris ; ut paria facere contendas ; 

 imo ut cum favore beneficium reponas, et agros fertiies 

 imiteris, qui multo plus reddunt quam acccperunt. 



" Haec sunt, quae tibi consulere officii mei esse duxi, ut 

 ingrati, imo injusti notam effugiam ; * ut qui beneficium 

 acciperem, officium autem non prsestarem ullam' quae ut 

 eodem, quo a me ammo profecta sunt, accipias ; eademque 

 non ut monita mea, sed ut mandata paterna, imo divina 

 respicias, et observes, rogo; meque habeas, pro humilissimo 

 et fidissimo tuo cliente et servo." J\ R. 



