22 CORRESPONDENCE OF RAY. 



FuDgis cum te, Deo dante, videro, pluribus agemus. 

 Quod in studiis rei naturalis tarn constanter perseveres, 

 et institutum pertinaciter urgeas, te plurimiim laudo. 

 Rem sane curiosissimam te nuper observasse narras, ni- 

 mii'um Cochleam cujus spirae in diversam partem flectan- 

 tur, cum inter doctos constans opinio sit, a septentrionali 

 sequatoris parte cochleas omnes (motum sc. solis obser- 

 vando) a sinistra dextram versias torqueri. Nee ego un- 

 quam inveni qualem tu describis. Sive ergo alias sint 

 hujus generis, sive haec sola exceptio sit, et diligenter 

 servari, et exacte describi, depingique meretur. Ni mora 

 in hac urbe mea incerta fuisset a te illam petiissem, ut 

 Regali Societati (cujus nuper particeps factus sum) mon- 

 strarem. Die Lunse proximo (favente numine) Sussexiam 

 petam Londino relicto, ubi vanis poliicitationibus nimis 

 din detentus fui. 

 Londini ix Cal. Decembr., 1667. 



Sir Phil. Skippon to Mr. Weay. 



Sir, — The dean (Wilkins) says he is confident no man 

 can translate his book, ' Real Character,' better than 

 yourself. Yesterday the transfusion of blood was expe- 

 rimented upon the same body they hired at first : they 

 let out eight or ten ounces of his own, and then trans- 

 fused of the sheep's arterial blood about fourteen or six- 

 teen ounces. There was a great company present. The 

 sweet-smelUng earth found in Captain Massey's garden 

 in Hogston, you have heard of already ; an oil has been 

 extracted which smells sweet. The ' Journal des S^avans' 

 relates, that Cassini hath discovered and described the 

 motions of Venus about her own axis. 



Dec. 13, 1667. 



