Mr. Oldenburgh to Mr. Ray. 



SIR j London, Decemb. zi, — 74> 



YOUR accurate Difcourfe touching the Seeds, 

 and the Specifick Difference of Plants, was read 

 betore the Royal Society on jfhurfday laft, and was fo 

 well received 1 , that the Preiident, in the Name of 

 the whole Body, returns you their hearty Thanks for 

 fo good an Entertainment. They doubt not, but 

 that you will in good time communicate to them alfo 

 what you fhall farther obferve concerning the Seeds of 

 Bulbous Plants, and the pofitive Specifick Difference of 

 Plants 5 and they wifh you much Health, and good 

 Succefs, for performing what you intend in reference 

 to the Hiftory of Animals : Wherein, if I could con- 

 tribute any thing, I would do it with great Joy, 

 I received lately from Hamborough a German Defcri- 

 ption of that Countrey in Africa, call'd Fetu; (of 

 which I have given fome Account in the laft Tranfa- 

 ftions of November) and found in the Book bound 

 fome loofe Cuts, which I fee not that they belong 

 to that Book 5 amongft them were thefe three here 

 enclos'd, which I thought fit to fend you, that you 

 might fee whether you have all the Birds therein ex- 

 prefs'd, and whether you know the Plants that are in 

 one of them. That Cutt, which is mark'd 1, feems 

 to- rcprefent the Anas ArElica Clufii, the Eye only is 

 different, if I miftake not. You may, when you 

 have done with them, return them to me in a Paper 

 to Mr. Martin \ to whom I fpoke lately, that I had 

 gotten Permiflion to have a Draught taken of the 

 E afl -Indian Pigeons, and the other Birds, brought 

 from thofe Parts by Capt. Erin, (now living on ?T ruuer* 

 Hill) if it were worth while. But he tells me, that 



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