no Mr. Ray^ Anfwer. 



cane \ as alfo what his Animal Seeds may be. jfih$ 

 Shining-Barks of frees which he mentions deferve Ob- 

 fervation, becaufe I find nothing of them in other 

 W liters. I fhall not inftance in more Particulars. I wifh 

 your Voyage had fo long prevented the Publication 

 of my Hiftory, that I might have been fatisfied and 

 informed by you of thefe and a thoufand other Par- 

 ticulars, and had fo great an Acceflion of new and non- 

 defcript Species as your Inquifitions and Obfervations 

 would have enriched it withal. I take Leave,, and 

 reft, tfc. 



t h$ol*& remind 3$ 



Rich. Waller Efq h to Mr. Ray. 



SIRy London^ Teh.^. i68y a < 



I Thought it might not be an unacceptable Com- 

 munication to tell you, that being this laft Sum- 

 mer at Keinjham in Somerfetjhire^ and making a 

 Search after the Cornua Ammonis^ I found (amonglt 

 feveral of the ordinary Snake-Stones in which the 

 Shelly Diaphragms were very vifible) one of the 

 true Nautilus Shape, covered in fome Places with a 

 Shelly Incruftation, with the Diaphragms to be feen 

 to the Centre of the Vohtta \ and in each Diaphragm 

 the Hole by which they communicate with one ano- 

 ther, by a String, or Gut, iti the Fifh. This was of 

 a very hard Stone, and large Size, weighing at leaft 

 z8 Pound, tho' fome Part was broken off. 



Mr. 



