448 CORRESPONDENCE OF RAY. 



an^lanoptpwla aKoSd, wlieii I shall come to those numerous 

 tribes of scarabaei, phalsenae, and muscse, then a little of 

 yom- company will be very acceptable, and expedite and 

 clear all things very much, and save a great deal of 

 writing and sending to and fro, as you say well. 



The present of my Supplement is rather the payment 

 of a debt than a gift, and therefore there is no thanks 

 due for it. 



Mr. Dale and myself have diligently compared the 



specimens you sent of our Enghsh papilios, and the 



explications of them in the Catalogue, with ours, and 



find that you have several species we want, especially of 



the blue ones, and we but one or two which you want. 



I have desu'ed Mr. Dale to give you an account of all, as 



also of some mentioned in your Catalogue which you 



have sent no samples of, &c., because much writing is 



grievous to me in the condition I am in at present, and 



besides, I have several letters to write. I have written to 



Mr. Smith to desire him to deliver to you two copies of 



my Supplement for Father Camelli and Mr. Bulkley, 



which I hope he will do. Your specimens of the more 



rare officinal plants are a very curious and lovely spectacle, 



and divers of them, nay, the most of them such as I had 



never seen. They shall be carefully remitted to you. 



This being all that I can think of at present, I rest, 



offices of love. 



Black Notley, June 19, 1704. 



Mr. Ray to Dr. Hans Sloane. 



Black Notley, August 9, 1704. 



Sir, — These are to acquaint you that I have now 

 begun the ' History of Insects,' Avhich, because it would 

 be but a blind and useless work without cuts, I intend, 

 with your approbation, to publish such a proposition as this. 



Having by me a competent quantity of materials for a 



