LETTERS TO MERRETT. 8 1 



a recuruation of the Aspera arteria in the sternon as I 

 noted in the margin long agoe in vulgar errors, the 

 blicca marina [see Note 74] may well be named Harengi- 

 formis. [several words smeared oui\ I have the draught of 

 that an Herring & a pilcher in one paper upon that 

 account [Fol. 104 vers6\ I belieue [?] you were well 

 informd of the cotta [see p. 79] & fulica of our Ralla 

 Aquatica I enclose a draught. 



Of porci solidipedes there are diners still in the country 

 in some places I am promised a pigge by a friend who 

 cherisheth that [new crossed out] breed. I tooke notice of 

 them 26 yeares ago, & hauing not lately minded them 

 thought they had been worn out butt I perceiue they 

 are not — some are more plainly wholefooted then others 

 & especially in the fore feet & in the rest there is no 

 thorough iissure butt at most a superficial! seame, so 

 they are [No. 3 cap 27 adove] Quadrupedia duplici 

 nomine imunda. 



[This last paragraph seems to have been written by 

 way of emendation of what appears above on the same 

 subject. A photograph of a portion of the above letter 

 will, by the courtesy of the Bodleian Librarian, be found 

 as a frontispiece to this volume. Mr. Jenkinson, the 

 Librarian of the University of Cambridge, and through 

 him, Mr. G. F. Warner and Mr. Kenyon, of the Depart- 

 ment of Manuscripts of the British Museum, have kindly 

 interested themselves in the transcript of this letter, 

 which was very difficult to decipher.] 



No. VIII. 



BIBLIOTHECA BODLEIANA (MS. RAWL. D. cviii.) 



[Draft of a letter from Sir Thomas Browne, described in the 

 Catalogue of the Rawlinson MSS. as to the Secretary of the 

 Royal Society, but from its contents evidently written to Merrett, 

 whose letter, dated 8th May, 1669, is in part a reply to it.] 



