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Mr. Lhwyd to Mr. Ray. 



Honoured SIR, Oxford, April 14. 1690. 



DR. Lifter acquaints me that Mr. Charleton has 

 lately receiv'd a Land-Snail from Suranam, not 

 bigger than a Hen's Egg, which yet lays Eggs as big 

 as thofe of a Sparrow 3 and the Snails that are hatch'd 

 of them are, he fays, twice as large as the Eggs. 



Sir, I thank you for your Pattern of the Mufcus 

 Denticulatus major. One Mr. Richardfon^ a Gentle- 

 man of Yorkfhire, (a Perfon very curious about Plants, 

 and the other Parts of Natural Hiftory, and that has 

 fpent about 6 or 7 Years with Dr. Herman in that 

 Study) told me he was fomewhat fecure that Plant 

 grew in Torkfhire, under the Heaths, and promis'd 

 to fend me Patterns of it this Summer. 



I only expe£t your Commands for fome figured 

 Stones : Thofe that this Countrey affords are chiefly 

 in Imitation of Shells. We have none that refemble 

 Fife) or any other Animals befides, nor that have the 

 Refemblance of any Plants. Cornu Hammonis, Afie- 

 rifcus, AJleria S. Afiroites, and Bekmnites of divers 

 Sorts, we have plentifully , as alfo fome others that* 

 I cannot compare to any natural Bodies that I have 

 any Notion of. One Quarry within z Miles of Ox- 

 ford I have fearch'd at leaft 40 times, and fometimes 

 had f or 6 with me > yet laft Saturday I difcover'd 

 there 3 Varieties of GloJJopetrte, tho' none had ever 

 been obferv'd in this Part of England before for what 

 I can learn. One of them is a 2ricufpis y fuch as Dr. 

 Lifter's in one of the Phil. Tranfad. 



Mr. 



