Mr. Barnham to Mr. Wray. i j 



leave. I know I need not provoke your Diligence 

 and Induftry in this matter , to make all inquiries^ 

 where you come after any thing that may do her good. 

 The Companion of your Nature will prompt you to 

 fo charitable a Work : She is a Perfon of fome Qua- 

 lity, and I am fure will have a due Senfe of her Obli- 

 gations to you. The Sicknefs laft Week at London 

 was but 28, God be praifed. 



Mar. 13 th , 166^. 



Mr. Lifter to Mr. Wray. 



M. Lifter D. Wray fuo. S. D. 



DE Hiftoria naturali Ariftotelis ita cenfeo , eum 

 hominem Philofophum prasclare agere : fed 

 egregius vir minime fatisfacit tantis facultatibus atque 

 adjumentis, quorum meminit Plinius ei prseftita fuifle 

 ab Alexandro. Certe in his prsecipue rebus, quibus 

 me quotidie exercco, turpiffime ilium errare depre- 

 hendo, neque fane id mirum cum praeclariffimus au- 

 thor fummum fuum ingenium confulere maluit, quam 

 res ipfas. Illud manifeftum, eum pauciffimis experi* 

 mentis fuifle contentum ut immenfam ftrufturam ex- 

 sedificaret. De Plinio tu mihi abunde fatisfeciffci fu- 

 perioribus tuis Uteris : adeoque tuum judicium a dili- 

 gentiffima le£tione vehementer complector approbo- 

 que. Ad noftros homines venio, quorum, in primis 

 ingeniofiflimus juxta ac diligentiflimus fcriptor Aldro- 

 vandus (nam Albertum, Cardanum caeterofque id genus 

 homines ftomachor valde, quod me plane operam 

 perdidifle fentio , quam iis evolvendis dederim 5 nifi- 

 quod id profecenm, quam licere homines docliffimos 

 ineptire, qui ultra apparatum velint Philofophari.) 

 Sed ad Aldrovandum redeo, virum fane mirificum, 



z cui 



