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bus altiim silere, si ita loqui liceat. Quod tibi commu- 

 nicem a me noviter inventum, aut observatum, nihil aliud 

 habeo quam quod in Pliilosophicis Transactionibus dictis 

 invenies, de Ape quddam sylvestri quae mira arte nidificat 

 (ut ita dicam) aut cellas fabricat foetui suo e particulis 

 foliorum rosse decisis ; quarum locum, magnitudinem, 

 figuram, usum ibidem descriptos invenies. 



Videbis me in titulo catalogi et dedicatione literam 

 nominis mei initialem W abjecisse, quod ne mireris, 

 fateor tibi, me earn olim, antiqua et patria scriptione 

 immutata, citra idoneam rationem adscivisse. Restat 

 jam ut consilium a te petam, nuperrime enim amplissima 

 mihi conditio oblata est, si velim tres adolescentes celebri 

 loco natos, in exteras regiones peregrinatm^os aut ducere 

 aut comitari, consilioque meo et opera juvare. Ego certe 

 meipsum tali negotio imparem et miniis idoneum judico ; 

 nee si idoneus essem puto me tantam mercedem aut sti- 

 pendium mereri posse. Centum librae annuatim ofFerun- 

 tur, necessariis omnibus expensis etiam persolutis. Tu 

 quid de hac re sentias ocyiis rescribas. 



Media} Vill^ xi Kal. (Aug. 22) Septemb. 1670. 



Dr. Lister to Mr. Wray, from York, in Answer to the foregoing Letter. 



Dear Sir, — I will not omit, that having bored deep 

 into a fair and aged sycamore the latter end of May, it 

 did not run at all, neither what remained of that month, 

 nor the month following that I observed ; but the bark 

 put out a hp, or wreath, and seemed to heal. The 

 beginning of July I cut out an inch, or more, square of 

 the bark, at about my height, in the body of the same 

 tree. This wound ran the next morning so as to drop, 

 and yet always towards noon it dried ; and the same 

 wound, for twenty-one days after (which was as long as 

 I stayed to observe it), never failed to drop in the 



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