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Mr. Kay's Anfwer to Dr. Lifter. 



Dear S I R, 



YOurs of July z d came to hand. I thank you for 

 the Advices therein contained. I Ihould my fel£ 

 have remember'd and inferted the Fungus Piperatus 9 

 of which you formerly fent me a large Account. But 

 the Experiments of the Vinegar of Gallium, and Ful- 

 minating Powder of Lycopodium, if ever I read any 

 thing of them, were quite flipt out of my Memory. 

 I fancy that I have read fomething of the firft in our 

 Tranfa&ions j and the fecond, if it be in Olearius'% 

 Travels, I muft alfo have read of 5 but, itfeems, heeded 

 not. I have not at prefent by me thofe Tranfa£tion$ f 

 or other Books, to which you refer, and therefore 

 beg of you a full Account of both thofe Experiments , 

 for I fhouldbe loath. either of them fhouldbe omitted 

 in my Catalogue $ which I fuppofe is e're now begun 

 to be printed, tho* I have not yet received any Proof 

 of it. I thought it the more expedite Way to give 

 you this Trouble, than to ftay the fending to London 

 for thofe Books. Your Notes and Obfervations in 

 Natural Hiftory do very well deferveto be made pub- 

 lick \ and I fhould advife rather by themfelves, than 

 be buried in Mr. Willughbfs Work : The Printing 

 alfo of which depends upon my Life and Health * 

 and, befides, it will be long before his Hijlory of In- 

 fers and Exanguia be fitted for the Prefs, I being at 

 prefent upon the Hijlory of Fijhes^ which will take 

 Up ftill a Year or two's Time. I have only this to ob- 

 je£t to you, and my felf, againft their fpeedy Publi- 

 cation, that the longer they lie by you, if ftill you 

 profecute the fame Studies and Enquiries, the more 

 perfect and fujl they will be, every day almoft adding 



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