322 CORRESPONDENCE OF RAY. 



I have been and still am troubled with a cold, which dis- 

 ease is epidemical hereabouts. I am, 



Sir, 



Your most obliged and affectionate friend and servant, 



JOHN RAY. 



I must not forget my wife's humble service to you. 



For his honoured friend, Dr. Hans Sloane, 

 at his house at the corner of Southampton street, 

 next Bloomsbury square, London. 



Mr. DOODY to Mr. RAY. 



, SIR, Dr. Woodward has shown me slates, wherein 

 there were not only shades of plants, as in the Dendroides, 

 but the real body, and become very hard by imbibing in 

 these stony particles; in one side of the slate a cavity 

 with the impress of the leaf, and on the other side it may 

 be seen prominent, and in both every little lineament so 

 exact, that I could not doubt that they had once grown. 

 I have not seen them very lately, but I intend ere long, 

 and then I shall be able to give you a farther account. 



TENTZELIUS to Mr. HAY. 



VIR CELEBERRIME, Bienniurn est, ex quo controversia 

 agitur inter me et Collegium Medicum Gethanum de 

 prsegrandibus ossibus terrse effossis, quse ego ab Elephanto, 

 Medici autem pure fossile esse contendunt. Epistolam, 

 quam Magliabechio tune inscripsi, primo statim mense 

 ad illustrem Societatem Regiam misi, una cum ossium 

 fragmentis, illiusque judicio cuncta subjeci. Verum non 

 pervenisse ad manus vestras, ex silentio colligo, cum satis 

 ex adverso mihi constet, qua humanitate respondere so- 

 leatis Germanis, curiosa vobis dijudicanda offerentibus. 

 Opto igitur, ut hie fasciculus felicior sit, quern curandum 



