VI EDITOR S PREFACE. 



valuable notes. I am also indebted to William Yarrell, 

 Esq., for the identification and modern names of the 

 animals mentioned in the letters. 



The copperplate Portrait of Ray is from a drawing, by 

 Ince, of the bust by Roubiliac, now in the library of 

 Trinity College, Cambridge, and was originally published 

 in the ' Cambridge Portfolio,' edited by the Rev. J. J. 

 Smith, of Caius College, through whose liberality impres- 

 sions have been permitted to be taken from the original 

 plate. The engraving of Dewlands, the residence of 

 John Ray, and the house in which he died, has been 

 kindly presented to the Society by Jacob H. Pattisson, 

 Esq., LL.B., of Witham House, the present proprietor of 

 Dewlands. 



It is hoped that this work will not only be another 

 memorial of the great man after whom the Society by 

 which it is published has been named, but that it may 

 serve as an additional som*ce of information to some 

 future biographer of John Ray. 



E. L. 



