323 CORRESPONDENCE OF RAY. 



I have been and still am troubled with a cold, which dis- 

 ease is epidemical hereabouts. I am. 



Sir, 

 Your most obhged and affectionate friend and servant, 



John Ray. 



I must not forget my wife's humble service to you. 



Por his honoured friend. Dr. Hans Sloane, 



at his house at the comer of Southampton street, 

 next Bloomsbury square, Loudon. 



Mr. DooDT to Mr. Ray. 



Sir, — Dr. Woodward has shown me slates, wherein 

 there were not only shades of plants, as in the Dendroides, 

 but the real body, and become very hard by imbibing in 

 these stony particles ; in one side of the slate a cavity 

 with the impress of the leaf, and on the other side it may 

 be seen prominent, and in both every little lineament so 

 exact, that I could not doubt that they had once grown. 

 I have not seen them very lately, but I intend ere long, 

 and then I shall be able to give you a farther account. 



Tentzelitjs to Mr. Rat. 



ViR Celeberrime, — Biennium est, ex quo controversia 

 agitur inter me et Collegium Medicum Gethanum de 

 praegrandibus ossibus terrae effossis, quae ego ab Elephanto, 

 Medici auteni pure fossile esse contendunt. Epistolam, 

 quam Magliabechio tunc inscripsi, primo statim mense 

 ad illustrem Societatem Regiam misi, una cum ossium 

 fragmentis, illiusque judicio cuncta subjeci. Veriim non 

 pervenisse ad manus vestras, ex silentio colligo, cum satis 

 ex adverso mihi constet, qua humanitate respondere so- 

 leatis Germanis, curiosa vobis dijudicanda offerentibus. 

 Opto igitur, ut hie fasciculus felicior sit, quem cm-andum 



