408 CORRESPONDENCE OF RAY. 



Mr. RAY to Dr. HANS SLOAKE. 



Black Notley, .... 1702. 



SIR, In one of your last letters you were pleased to 

 tell me that you had a parcel of China plants which you 

 would do me the favour to give me a sight of. Having 

 now almost gone over Dr. Sherard's, I am ready to receive 

 them; and therefore desire you would please to send 

 hither so soon as may stand with your leisure and con- 

 venience. I am very listless, and unable to stir about 

 and to turn over and search books, and so can make but 

 poor work with new and nondescript plants, unless the 

 specimens be very fair, which is the reason I can make 

 but little use of your Magellan Straits' plants. My 

 ' Method us Plantarum em en data et aucta ' is now printing 

 in Holland, and almost finished, so that I hope shortly 

 to have a copy to present you. I am highly obliged to 

 Dr. Hotton for his pains and care in presiding the edition, 

 and revising and correcting the proofs, so that I doubt 

 not but the book will come out very correct. My wife 

 salutes you with the tender of her humble service, with 

 whom joins, 



Sir, 

 Your most obliged friend and humble servant, 



JOHN RAY. 



For his honoured friend, Dr. Hans Sloane, 



at his house at the corner of Southampton street, 

 towards Bloomsbury square, London. 



Mr. KAY to Dr. HAXS SLOANE. 



Black Notley, Jan. 20, 1702. 



SIR, I received your noble present of sugar, highly 

 valuable both for the quantity and quality, for which 

 myself, wife, and girls return you our most hearty thanks. 



