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addit. Me olini judicium tuum elicuisse memini de 

 Kerchero : is in tractatu, mundus subterraneus nominato, 

 inter alia, de horum animalium productione spontanea 

 pluribus verbis agit ; quee tamen res omnino an fiat in 

 universa rerum natura, dubito vehementer. Testimonia 

 Aldrovandi, &c., nihili sunt. Ego plura expertus, quae 

 contrarium vel evincant, vel erroris certe causas declarent j 

 qua3 tu alio tempore, a me expectabis. In extremis ea 

 accepi, qua; in actis illustrissimae societatis vestrae lego. 

 Ubi in primis praeclarissimum specimen ingenii sui edidit 

 D. King de Formica. Habes quae scire potui de scripto- 

 ribus minutorum animalium, ea judicii libertate, quae 

 nostra3 amicitiae sit. Si qui sint qui nostram cognitionem 

 admKT^krteant, fac me de iis certiorem. Et velim ut 

 tuum judicium interponas turn de his quorum supra 

 memini turn de iis quae restant. Item rogo digneris 

 quam plurimis verbis mihi perscribere, quum, commodo 

 tuo fiat, quid tu existimes de optimo genere harum rerum 

 turn observandarum, turn tractandarum. Nam fere 

 totus sum in his novis nostris delectationibus. Vale et 

 nos ama. 



Burvelae agri Lincoliiiensis, viii Cal. Aprilis. 



Mr. WHAT to Mr. LISTER, Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge. 



SIR, Arrived here (viz. Cambridge) I found a letter 

 from you, the reading whereof gave me no small content, 

 it containing expressions so significant, and full of heat 

 and irdOog, as certainly nothing but sincere love could 

 dictate. Sure they must needs be a true copy of your 

 mind, and not words of course and compliment, only I 

 could wish you had been more sparing in what refers to 

 my commendation; for though I would not refuse the 

 testimony and praise of persons who are themselves 

 praise- worthy, where there is just ground and reason for 

 it, yet not when it exceeds the merit of any thing I dare 



