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seen Sorgum cultivated, or have specimens of it, I must 

 yield to you. Your two genera of Gramen dactylon and 

 new genus of Juncus cyperoides I do very much approve, 

 as well observed by you. My wife salutes you with the 

 tender of her very humble service, and I am, 



Sir, 

 Yours in all offices of love and service, 



JOHN R,AY. 



For his honoured friend, Dr. Hans Sloane, 



at his house at the corner of Southampton street, 

 towards Bloomsbury square, London. 



Mr. RAY to Dr. HAKS SLOANE. 



B. N., July 19, 97. 



SIR, These are to acquaint you that I intend next 

 Wednesday to send back your Stamineous tribe. I had 

 within a little finished it last week. Wednesday a young 

 German doctor gave me a visit, known to you better 

 than myself, for he told me he had been with and received 

 several things of you. He draws insects, as far as I am 

 able to judge, exceeding well. He stayed at Braintree 

 two days, which time he spent in drawing several Papi- 

 lios and Plialcena, some of Mr. Dale's and some of mine. 

 He hath seen and delineated all the Papilios of England 

 known to me, about forty species, and assures that the 

 most of them are common to Germany with us, and that 

 Sibylla Myrion to his knowledge hath drawn none of 

 them but what we also have. He seems to be very inge- 

 nious and communicative, and, were I but ready with my 

 History of English Insects, might be of great use. But 

 alas ! I have not gone through one tribe, that of butter- 

 flies nocturnal and diurnal ; nor, should I live ten years 

 longer, were I like to come to any near prospect of the end 

 of it, should I pursue it with that diligence and applica- 

 tion I have done now these seven years. What then shall 



