if ADVERTISEMENT. 



I have paid implicit refpecr. to the Swedijh 

 Naturalist, in my cl ailing of the Vermes 

 and Shells. I have on another occafion *, 

 given my fentiments of that wonderful man, 

 (after Ray) the greater! illuminator of the 

 ftudy of Nature. I have borrowed from 

 him the Latin trivial names; fometimes given 

 tranflations of them; fometimes given other 

 Englijh names, when I thought them more 

 apt. 



Gratitude prompts me to mention a 

 mod irreparable lofs in my amiable friend 

 Benjamin Stillingfleet, Efquire, in 

 whom were joined the beft heart and the 

 ableft head. Benevolence and innocence were 

 his infeparable companions. Retirement 

 his choice, from the mod affectionate of 

 motives J. How great, yet how unnecefTary 

 was his diffidence in public ! How ample, his 

 inftruction in private ! How clear his infor- 

 mation ! How delicate the conveyance ! The 

 pupil received advantage, edified by the hu- 

 mility of the mailer. Thoroughly imbued 

 in Divine Philolbphy, he had an uncommon 



* Synopfis of Quadrupeds, Preface vii. 

 % Mr. Gray's Letters, 288. 



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