LITTLE Switzerland and Italy and journeyed to Scotland. 

 JOURNEYS Q Willughby devoted his life to Ornithology and Ich- 

 thyology and won a deathless place in science. 

 Ray specialized on botany, and did a work in classifi- 

 cation never done before. H e made a catalog of the 

 flora of England that wrung even from Cambridge a 

 compliment they offered him the degree of LL.D. 

 Ray very quietly declined it, saying he was only a 

 simple countryman, and honors or titles would be a 

 disadvantage, tending to separate him from the plain 

 people with whom he worked. However, the Royal 

 Society elected him a member, and he accepted the 

 honor that he might put the results of his work on 

 record. His paper on the circulation of sap in trees was 

 read before the Royal Society, on the request of New- 

 ton. Due credit was given Harvey for his discovery ot 

 the circulation of blood, but Ray made the fine 

 point that man was brother to the tree, and his life 

 was derived from the same Source. 

 When Willughby died in 1672 he left Ray a yearly in- 

 come of three hundred dollars. 



Dr. Johnson told Boswell that Ray had a collection 

 of twenty thousand English bugs. 



Our botanical terminology comes more from John 

 Ray than from any other man. Ray adopted the names 

 wherever possible given by Aristotle, so loyal, loving 

 and true was he to the Master. 

 Ray died in 1705, aged seventy-six. 



