212 CORRESPONDENCE OF RAY. 



Mr. LHWTD* to Mr. RAT. 



HONOURED SIR, The same varieties of Entrochi, with 

 those you sent me, are found in Staffordshire, but 

 1 had none exactly like them ; for, though I picked up 

 some variety of them in Wales, yet they all differ 

 from these in texture, consistence, and colour. About 

 Oxford we have considerable variety of formed stones, 

 more than Dr. Plot has mentioned in his history ; but 

 no Entrochi were ever found in this county that I have 

 heard of. If any one of these formed stones may be 

 acceptable to you, I can send you a parcel whenever you 

 please to command it. 



Dr. Morison's first tome, which, with the second 

 already printed, contains all the herbaceous kind, is 

 ready for the press. Pray excuse this hasty scribble, 

 and repute me, &c. 

 Oxford, Feb. 25, 16f. 



Mr. LHWTD to Mr. HAT. 



HONOURED SIR, Dr. Lister acquaints me that Mr. 

 Charlton has lately received a land-snail from Surinam, 

 not bigger than a hen's egg, which yet lays eggs as big 

 as those of a sparrow ; and the snails that are hatched of 

 them are, he says, twice as large as the eggs. 



Sir, I thank you for your pattern of the Muscus den- 

 ticulatus major. One Mr. Richardson, a gentleman of 

 Yorkshire (a person very curious about plants, and the 

 other parts of natural history, and that has spent about 

 six or seven years with Dr. Herman in that study), told 

 me he was somewhat secure that plant grew in Yorkshire, 

 under the heaths, and promised to send me patterns of 

 it this summer. 



I only expect your commands for some figured stones. 



* See Appendix B. 



