1 1 6 Mr. Jeffop'* Paper. 



hot, ftir it up and down with a Stick very well, and 

 it will make blue Veins in the Soap. 



When it grows cold, they cut it into fquare Cakes 

 with Wires. 



Dr. Lifter to Mr. Ray. 



Dear SIjR p Yqi% June zo. —73. 



I Am very joyful at the News you give me of your 

 Thoughts of publishing the Natural Hiflory de- 

 fign'd by Mr. Willughby. lam very fenfible of the 

 great Pains it will ask to perfed any one Part of it. 

 I only beg of you, that you will let one part fee the 

 Light before you undertake the next, and that they 

 may not ftay one of another. My Notes are very 

 fiender upon the Subjed: of Birds. 



I have very little Time to bellow upon Natural 

 Hiflory 5 yet what Pleafure I give my felf, is to divert 

 my felf that way. I have been at Bugthorp fince- I 

 kit writ to you, to view the Pla.ce of Petrified Shells. 

 I {hall not trouble you at prefent with any of my 

 Oblervations made there, lave, that I found fomq 

 Star-Stonesbr^nc\\td^ I had found formerly St. Cuth- 

 berth Beads in Craven. 



This Year has much changed my Thoughts con- 

 cerning Kermes. i have found them upon old* Ropes 

 and Deal Boards. I am pretty confident that it is an 

 Animal of the Multipede Rind, which does fix it felf 

 in order to the laying of its Eggs •> and that the Eggs 

 are laid and faiten'd about its Belly, juil as the Eggs of 

 a Cray-fiih are under her Tail. I have taken the 

 Animals before the fixing of themfeives > but fhail 

 tell more of this e're long. 



For 



