CORRESPONDENCE OF RA.Y. 129 



Mr. Aubrey to Mr. Ray, 



Honoured Sir, — I heard lately from my friend Mr. 

 Paschal (as I often do), who tells me he hath given an 

 account to some friends of his of some tables that might 

 be made according to those of yom's in the Bishop's 

 Essay, and fitted to be hung up in garden-houses in the 

 manner of maps. He desires me to advise with you if 

 it might not be worth while to get those five (viz. 1. 



Herb-leaf; 2, ; 3, Herb Seed-vessel; 4, Shrub; 



5, Tree) done at London, and made public ; and that if 

 to the name of each plant were adjoined a neat cut, and 

 to the description in the foot of the table, in English, 

 were added the several names in English, Latin, Greek, 

 they might become a fine ornament for summer-houses, 

 and very useful for those who delight in that kind of 

 knowledge. If this be approved, the like may be done 

 for those other tables of stones and metals, and those 

 also of insects, birds, and beasts. The same may be also 

 put into a little pocket-book, Avliich may be of use where 

 the larger tables cannot be had. He adds (and Sir 

 Christopher Wren agrees with him in it), this may do 

 good service, to occasion the real character to be taken 

 notice of, and the way and manner of it to be under- 

 stood. He says, if this find approbation, he will take 

 the pains to draw these out, with the description of each 

 species, as it is in the Bishop of Chester's, and send it 

 up, desiring that the learned contriver of those tables, 

 Mr. Ray, may be consulted with for making such altera- 

 tions and additions as he shall see cause for. 



Mr. Merret (the doctor's eldest son) hath methodized 

 the laws of England very ingeniously, secundum mentem 

 Episcopi Cestriens. which was never done before. 



London, July 9, 1678. 



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