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recovered and in health, which I mention, because I am 

 not without some fear that her illness may be some occa- 

 sion of your deferring to send me a further part of your 

 history. 



Now, sir, since you are pleased to take so kindly my 

 advising you of some oversights or typographical errata 

 in your Catalogue, I shall add two or three more ; though 

 in the mean time I must and do acknowledge that I meet 

 with very few books so well correct as that ; I am sure 

 there are none of mine but have tvidce as many errors, 

 partly owing to mine own ignorance or oversight ; for 

 through inadvertency I do often commit mistakes in 

 things that I know, did I but heed, tanquam ungues 

 digitosque, partly to the compositors at the printing-house. 

 P. 129, 1. 12; for "inrredible" I suppose it to be read 

 I' inremediable ;" 1. 27, /or "illinita" read "illita," and 

 in the same line, for " pericutietm-," ^'percutietur." 

 P. 138, lines 31, 33, and 35; /or " Zanthoxylon" read 

 " Xanthoxylon." Though here you do but copy your 

 author, and the mistake be his ; yet you might be so kind 

 to him as to correct it, and lest the reader, being ignorant 

 thereof, may attribute it to you. But enough at pre- 

 sent. My wife salutes you with the tender of her humble 

 service, and I am. 



Sir, 

 Your affectionate friend and obliged servant, 



John Ray. 



Por his honoured friend, Dr. Hans Sloane, at 

 his house at the corner of Southampton street, 

 towards Bloomsbury square, London. 



Mr. Ray to Dr. Hans Sloane. 



B. N., November 17, —97. 



Sir, — Your last papers, containing the herbs, with a 

 compound flower and first tribe of trees, being not sent 

 by the carrier formerly employed, I received not till 



