APPENDIX A. 



[two letters from doctor CHRISTOPHER 

 MERRETT TO SIR THOMAS BROWNE, MS. SLOANE 

 1830, FOL. I TO 3. THEY ARE BOUND UP IN 

 INVERSE ORDER OF DATE.] 



[Reply to No. 2 in the above Series.] 



[Fol. 3.J Worthy Sr,— y" of y= 14'^ instant I 

 recaeved as full off learning in discovering so many 

 very great curiosities as kindness in communicating 

 them to mee & promising y'" farther assistance, ffor 

 which I shall always proclame by my tongue as well as 

 by my pen, my due resentment & thanks. 



The 2 funguses [guses crossed out and x inserted^ y"' sent 

 y^ figures off \see Note 106] are y' finest & rarest as to 

 their figure I have ever seen or read of, & soe is y"^ fibula 

 marina, far surpassing one I reacived from Cornwall 

 much of y° same bigness, neither of which I find any- 

 where mentioned. The urtica marina minor Jonst. & 

 physalus I never met with, nor have bin informed off 

 y= canis charcharius alius Jonst. Many of y= Lupus 

 piscis I have seen, & have bin informed by y= Kings fish 

 monger they are taken on our coast, but was not satisfyed 

 for some reasons off his relation soe as to enter it into 

 my pinax, though tis said to bee peculiar to y' river 

 Albis [= Elbe] yet I thought they might come some- 

 times thence to y"^ coasts. Trutta marina I haue and 

 y= loligo, sepia, & polypus y"= 3 sorts off y= moUes have 

 bin found on our western coasts which shall bee exactly 



