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to reach the absent as well as the present, I mean of those 

 that have opportunity and ability, I do herewith intimate 

 to you (as I have lately done to Mr. Lister), that you are 

 looked upon as one of those which the said council have 

 in their eye for such an exercise, desiring you that you 

 would think upon such a subject as yourself shall judge 

 proper for one entertainment of that company after our 

 anniversary election-day the next year ; and if your occa- 

 sions should not permit you to step to London to present 

 your discourse yourself, they have found an expedient, 

 viz. to desire you, and such others as shall be in that case, 

 to send it up to London to any of your friends that may 

 present and read it for you. It is farther intended, that 

 such discourses shall be made public if the author so 

 think fit, not otherwise. Pray, sir, let me know that you 

 have received this, together with your particular answer 

 to the latter part thereof. 



London, Sept. 15, 74. 



Dr. LISTER to Mr. RAY. 



DEAR SIR, I am well pleased you like the Table of 

 Snails ; some things I have thought fit to alter since they 

 were sent up; particularly the title of the third snail, 

 which I now call, after a great collection of them, by this 

 title, which I think will comprise all the difference, Cochlea 

 citrina aut Leucoph&a unicolor, vel unica, vel %, vel 3, vel 4, 

 plerumque, vero quinis fasciis pullis distincta. Again, some 

 of the figures are unhappily mistaken by the graver, which 

 I hope to get corrected; particularly the 19th, which I 

 guess to be that you mean by your Nerites fuviatilis. 

 This I say, if any, is that you mean ; but I hope yours is 

 a new species. I have myself figured it by the life, and 

 indeed it was as truly designed before in the design, but 

 I know not how monstrously mistaken by the graver in 

 the plate. It is true, the second is that you and I found 



