74 LETTERS TO MERRETT. 



Though Scombri or Makerells [see Note 73] bee a 

 comon fish yet [in crossed out] our seas afford sometimes 

 strange & large ones as I haue heard from fishermen 

 & others. & this yeare 1668 one was taken at Lestoffe 

 an ell long by measure & presented to a Gentleman a 

 friend of myne. 



Musca Tuliparum moschata is a small beelike flye 

 [see Note 108] of an excellent fragrant odour which I haue 

 often found at the bottom of the flowers of Tuleps. 



[Fol. 44.] In the little box I send a peace of vesi- 

 caria or seminaria marina [yo crossed out] cutt of from 

 a good full one found on the sea shoare [see Note 91]. 



Wee haue [two or three words smeared out here] also 

 an eiectment of the sea very comon which is fanago [see 

 Note 91 J whereof some very large. 



I thank you for communicating the account of Thun- 

 der & lightening some strange effects thereof I haue 

 found heere butt this last yeere wee had litle or no 

 Thunder & lightening. [No signature.] 



No. V. 

 Dr. Browne to Merrett. 



[This letter which was originally printed in the " Posthumous 

 Works," will be found in MS. Sloane 1911-13, fol. 106, where 

 it is headed in pencil as addressed to Sir Wm. Dugdale, but it 

 was restored to its proper place by Wilkin in the 1836 Edition of 

 the Works, i., p. 404.] 



Honoured Sir 



[Fol. 106.] I am sorry I have had [diuersions above] of 

 such necessitie, as to hinder my more sudden salute since 

 I receiued your last. I thank you for the sight of the 

 Sperma Ceti, and such kind of effects from [Lightning & 

 Thunder written above] I have known and about 4 

 yeares ago about this towne when I with many others 



