78 LETTERS TO MERRETT. 



england. I neuer found any on our shoare butt one 

 brought mee a few small ones with smooth with [sic] 

 small shells from the shoare. I shall inquire further 

 after them. 



Urtica marina minor Johnst. tab. xviii. [see Note 90] 

 haue found more than once by the sea side. 



The hobby and the merlin would not bee omitted 

 among hawkes the first coming to us in the spring the 

 other about the autumn. Beside the ospray wee have a 

 larger kind of agle, calld an erne [see Note 3]. I haue 

 had many of them. 



Worthy deare Sr, if I can do anything farther wch 

 may bee seruiceable unto you you shall ever readily 

 comand my endeauours ; who am, Sr, Your humble & 

 very respectfuU seruant, 



Tho. Browne. 



Febr 6 [1668-9.] 



Norwich. 



No. VI. 



[miscellaneous papers. MS. SLOANE 1 847, FOL. 1 98.] 



[This volume contains a Miscellaneous collection, mostly 

 letters to his son Edward, and some to " Tom." The following 

 (as all in the volume) is on letter-sized paper, 7i x 6 in.] 



Worthy Sr 



[Fol. 198.] Though I writ vnto you last monday. 

 yet hauing omitted some few things wch I thought to 

 have mentioned I am bold to giue you this trouble 

 so soone agayne haue you putt in a sea fish calld a 

 bleak [see Note 74] a fish like an herring often taken with 

 us and eat butt a more lanck & thinne & drye fish. 



The wild swanne or elk [see Note 8] would not bee 



