22 CORRESPONDENCE OF RAY. 



Fungis cum te, Deo dante, videro, pluribus agemus. 

 Quod in studiis rei naturalis tarn constanter perseveres, 

 et institutum pertinaciter urgeas, te pluriraum laudo. 

 Hem sane curiosissimam te nuper observasse narras, ni- 

 mirum Cochleam cujus spirse in diversam partem flectan- 

 tur, cum inter doctos constans opinio sit, a septentrionali 

 sequatoris parte cochleas omnes (motum sc. solis obser- 

 varido) a sinistra dextram versus torqueri. Nee ego un- 

 quam inveni qualem tu describis. Sive ergo alia? sint 

 hujus generis, sive hsec sola exceptio sit, et diligenter 

 servari, et exacte describi, depingique meretur. Ni mora 

 in hac urbe mea incerta fuisset a te illam petiissem, ut 

 Regali Societati (cujus nuper particeps factus sum) mon- 

 strarem. Die Lunas proximo (favente numine) Sussexiam 

 petam Londino relicto, ubi vanis pollicitationibus nimis 

 diu detentus fui. 

 Londini ix Cal. Decembr., 1667. 



Sir PHIL. SKIPPON to Mr. WRAY. 



SIR, The dean (Wilkins) says he is confident no man 

 can translate his book, ' Real Character/ better than 

 yourself. Yesterday the transfusion of blood was expe- 

 rimented upon the same body they hired at first : they 

 let out eight or ten ounces of his own, and then trans- 

 fused of the sheep's arterial blood about fourteen or six- 

 teen ounces. There was a great company present. The 

 sweet- smelling earth found in Captain Massey's garden 

 in Hogston, you have heard of already ; an oil has been 

 extracted which smells sweet. The ' Journal des Scavans' 

 relates, that Cassini hath discovered and described the 

 motions of Venus about her own axis. 

 Dec. 13, 1667. 



