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the sores without drawing an issue, to give the humour 

 vent, which hath so long been wont to be drained away 

 by them, lest it become the matter of some other disease. 



The German which was with me from Dr. Tournefort 

 told me that Schelhammerus (as I remember) had written 

 to Kivinus and me, and that he believed you had a copy 

 of his letter, which, if you have, I beg a sight of it. I 

 lately received a letter from Tentzelius, the author of the 

 Epistle to Magliabechius, published in the ' Philosophical 

 Transactions,' together with some fragments of the teeth 

 and skull of the supposed elephant's skeleton digged up 

 at Tonna, wherein he tells me he had sent the like 

 fragments to the Royal Society, with a letter, desiring 

 their opinion concerning them, but had as yet received 

 no answer from them, so that he suspects his letter mis- 

 carried; whereupon he wrote to me urging the same 

 request, viz. that I would send him the opinion of the 

 Royal Society, or, if that cannot be obtained, my own 

 particular, concerning his controversy with the Collegium 

 Medicum Gothanum, which it seems have written against 

 him, and would have these bones to be Unicornu fossile. 

 I wonder the Royal Society should vouchsafe him no 

 kind of answer. I have sent Dr. Robinson a copy of 

 Tentzelius's letter, which, if you please, he will give you 

 a sight of. 



My wife salutes you with tender of her very humble 

 service by the hand of 



Sir, 

 Your very affectionate and much obliged 



friend and servant, 



JOHN RAY. 



Be pleased to send me word in your next, what is be- 

 come of Dr. Preston. I have a parcel of plants 1 received 

 from him which I would willingly remit. 



For his honoured friend, Dr. Hans Sloane, 



at his house at the corner of Southampton street, 

 towards Bloomsbury square, London. 



