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men, who found it. Mr. Newton, in company with Mr. Ray & 
myself, shew’d it us on a sandy bank in Tolles- anf Essex.” 
In 1704 appeared the last eee work of Ray’s life, the 
he volume of the ‘ Historia,’ and in the Preface to it Dale, along 
with Dr. Tancred Hoban and Tawar hwyd, is once more 
thanked for his assistance, in the words: ‘‘hi sunt triumviri, 
quibus in opere hoc locupletando peer e debitores sumus.’ 
Closely following the publication of this work come the 
referring to the death of his illustrious friend and teacher. On 
10th of January, 1704 (1705, New Style), he writes to the former : 
** Last night I Mogg our worthy friend, Mr. Ray, and found him 
so bad as not like to continue many days.’ Under date the 17th, 
he writes: “ Lexerdiy: I was againe to visit our worthy good friend 
Ray, whome I found alive and yt. was all, his sences being 
fleeting and not well to s understood what he said’’; and two days 
later ioe rites: “* The post by which I sent my letter of the 17th 
ad not been got out of ned save a quarter of an. hour, before the 
dolefull os expected tidings of the death of our good friend was 
brought m 
Sect m, whose life of Ray was aes based on informatio 
furnished him by the widow and by Dale, says ‘all his gdliaions 
of natural curiosities he bestowed on his friend and n eigh j 
Mr. Samuel Dale, author of the ‘ Pharmacologia,’ to vim they 
were delivered about a week before his death.” 
On January 24th, Dale wrote to Sloane with reference to the 
income (much less than the £60 annuity that died with the 
uU k 
‘‘siving an account of what manuscripts were left by Mr. John 
Ray, together with some ‘ Anatomical Observations’ made at Padua 
should complete the ‘ History of Insects’; but voc latter seems to 
have measured w ell the limitation of his own powers. ‘I heartily 
thank you,” he replies, on February 28rd, 1704, * for your good 
opinion of my ability to perfect Mr. Ray’s ‘ Historia _Insectorum 
must confess my inclination is good to serve Doth See widow and 
the publick, but helieve this undertaking to be above my sphere. 
Were it only to finish the English ‘ant I do not doubt but a 
with your assistance to do it (being better acquainted with 
Ray’s insects than any man), but the exotic part I cannot fashion, 
it requiring more brains and time than I can give, nor am I master 
ye so a" language as anything joyned to Mr. Ray’s would 
G. 8. Bouncer. 
(To be continued.) 
