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morning, and to dry before eleven. This experiment I 

 repeated upon a much less tree, and for five days it suc- 

 ceeded in like manner, but then gave over. The deep- 

 bored wound in the first large tree was not altogether 

 dry (although it seemingly was healed) at running hom's. 



I have added this summer three sorts of spiders to 

 my thirty-one. You may explain Retiada scutulata, by 

 adding in plana circuit fgurd; and so scutulata will be 

 limited to the meshes. 



This letter was writ, as you may see, before I re- 

 ceived yours, and had been sent, but that I deliberated a 

 post, whether it was not safer to send it by Nottingham. 

 I thank you for my very welcome present, viz. Catalogus 

 Plantar um. I am still of the same mind, and rejoice 

 that it is public ; and T am confident considerate men 

 will think themselves highly obliged to you, both for 

 your new discovered plants, and for the pains you took 

 in correcting the faults and mistakes of others ; that is, 

 you took pains to save it us, most writers of this subject 

 having been more vain than diligent and cautious. I 

 was pleased with the derivation of your name whilst U 

 was at it, it agreed so well with a virtue so eminent in 

 you, and which, I am confident, you will never lay aside, 

 however you please to alter tlie writing of your name. 

 You well know what Vrai/ in French means. I have 

 not seen the last Philosophical Transactions yet ; but I 

 observed a bee much like the hive-bee in colour, yet 

 somewhat broader and flatter. The manner of housing 

 of her young with leaves I showed to many of our fel- 

 lows when 1 was at the college. They make use of all 

 sort of leaves indifferently for this purpose, as the sallow 

 and thorn ; and they were mightily pleased with the soft 

 leaves of certain blue-pipe trees, or lilax, which grew in 

 our walks. The long pieces are scaled one upon another, 

 and the round ones do stop up both ends. There was a 

 single bee-worm in each cell, and provision of meat. 

 They were rammed one upon another in holes deep 

 bored into the body of a willow, &c. ; but I shall give all 



