454 CORRESPONDENCE OF RAY. 



Mr. Benj. Walford, booksellers, at the Prince's Arras in 

 St. Paul's Churchyard, and in each university paid in to 

 such a person as the said booksellers shall appoint to 

 receive it. Each printed sheet shall be afforded at a penny 

 and each plate at — . 



When the work shall be finished, every contributor 

 shall have a book delivered him, he making up what 

 shall be wanting of a penny per sheet, and per 



plate. If any shall please to contribute more than ten 

 shillings, he shall receive proportionably in printed sheets 

 and plates at the rates aforesaid. 



1 am sorely afraid that your insects may receive some 

 prejudice in sending and returning, let all imaginable 

 care and caution be used in securing them ; though I 

 once received a large box of insects from Mr. Tilleman 

 Bobart, from Oxford, without being harmed at all. I 

 thank you for your good opinion of me, and wish this 

 work may answer your expectation. I shall push forward 

 with all the haste my crazy condition will permit, con- 

 sidering that my life is uncertain and may likely deter- 

 mine before the work be finished. 



I do not well like the cuts of Mr. Petiver's Gazophy- 

 lacium ; they are not so elegant and polite as I could wish. 

 mine might be. I am, 



Sir, 

 Your highly obliged and most humble servant, 



John Ray. 



I had almost forgot to tell you that I should be very 

 glad to see your Mouffet, and that it may be of great use 

 to me. 



I mention receivers to be appointed in each university, 

 because I conceive that if the money be to be sent up to 

 London by each contributor, I shall not have half the num- 

 ber of contributors as if it were to be paid at the universi- 

 ties. The like might be done [in] other great cities, &c. 



To his honoured friend, Dr. Hans Sloane, 

 at his house at the corner of Southampton street, 

 towards Bloomsbury square, London. 



