148 RAY. 



London, when he took the degree of doctor at Ox- 

 ford, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal College 

 of Physicians. Having, in 1698, attended the Earl 

 of Portland on his embassy to France, he published, 

 when he returned, an account of the journey, which 

 was ridiculed by Dr William King in a parody, in 

 consequence of the minute observations in natural 

 history which it contained. In 1709, he was made 

 physician in ordinary to Queen Anne; but he occu- 

 pied this post only two years, as he died in February 

 1711. Omitting his medical writings, which are 

 not of much importance, we may observe, that be- 

 sides composing several papers which were printed 

 in the Philosophical Transactions, he published the 

 following works on shells, which are referred to by 

 the naturalists of the present day as important pro- 

 ductions : — 



Historia Animalium Angliae, with three tracts 

 on spiders, land and fresh-water shells, and marine 

 shells, together with fossils having the form of shells. 

 4to, London, 1678. 



Exercitatio Anatomica de Cochleis. 8vo, 1694. 

 Exercitatio Anatomica Altera, de Buccinis Fluvia- 

 tilibus et Marinis. 8vo, 1695. Exercitatio Ana- 

 tomica tertia Conchyliorum Bivalvium. 4to, 1696. 



Historise sive Synopsis Conchyliorum libri iv., 2 

 vols folio, 1685-1693. An edition was published, in 

 1770, by Mr Huddesford, keeper of the Ashmolean 

 Library at Oxford. Of this work there is a new 

 impression by Mr Dillwyn, with a scientific index. 

 The plates of the Historia Conchyliorum were exe- 

 cuted from drawings by his daughters, and are in 

 general accurate. 



As a specimen of the correspondence which na- 



