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Besides these, there are many papers on 

 Botanical and medical subjects, contained in the 

 17, 20, 21, 22, 23, 27, 40, 41, and 44th volumes, 

 and, in tbo 49th, a very curious account of the 

 introduction of Innoculation for Small Pox into 

 England. 



Sir Hans Sloane was also the cause of Dr 

 Leonhart Rau wolf's " Journey into the Eastern 

 Countries" being translated into English, of which 

 he writes thus to Ray : " I have perused most 

 part of RauwolPs Voyage ; which, being only 

 extant in high Dutch, and that understood by 

 very few, I thought would do very well in 

 English, and so borrowed it from the Royal 

 Society ; and Captain Hatton, being desirous of 

 it likewise, we put it into the hands of Mr Stap- 

 horst, who has done it, as you see, I think, pretty 

 clear though the making it good language and 

 the notes are left wholly to you. Some passages 

 are not to be well translated, because of different 

 customs and proverbs ; but I think, so far as the 

 Natural History is concerned, it may be under- 

 stood." * Accordingly, the book translated by 

 Nicholas Staphorst, and improved by Ray, was 

 published in the second volume of the work 

 known by the title of " Ray's Travels," and 

 reached a second edition in 1738. 



