343 CORRESPONDENCE OF RAY. 



Your last three tribes T returned, and hope they are come 

 safe to your hands, though you have not been pleased to 

 give me advice of it. I wonder that I have not of a long 

 time heard anything of or from Dr. Preston. I have some' 

 papers of dried plants of his in my hands, which I would 

 willingly remit, if I had but order from him whither I 

 should send them. My other twin-daughter, as I think I 

 hinted to you before, hath been very ill of the same disease 

 of which her sister died. I thank God she is now in a 

 hopeful way of recovery, though not out of all danger. 

 We have plied her with chalybeate medicines, judging 

 her disease to be complicated of the jaundice and chlo- 

 rosis. My wife tenders her very humble service to you ; 

 and I am no less, 



Sir, 

 Yours in all offices of love and service, 



John Ray. 



Tor liis honoui-ed friend, Dr. Hans Sloane, 



at Ms house at tlie corner of Southampton street, 

 towards Bloomsbury square, London. 



Mr. Eay to Dr. Hans Sloane. 



Sir, — My Supplement to the Dendrology, being in a 

 manner wholly yours, I have this morning sent you up 

 by carrier, and been bold also to put the charge of car- 

 riage upon you, for the better security of conveyance. I 

 entreat your pains in correcting what is erroneous or mis- 

 taken in supplying what is wanting, in altering and 

 amending what is obscurely delivered, or not well ex- 

 pressed, and whatever other faults of any kind you shall 

 find therein. 



I am at present in evil case, the sores upon my legs 

 spreading and increasing, and growing very deep many 



