i6z Sir Hans Sloatie to Mr. Ray. 



TJnguU or Ungues, they being round and blunt, and 

 covering the very tops of his Toes. 



J5. N. April 1 5 — 92. ) 



Sir Hans Sloane to Mr. Ray. 



SIR, London, May zo th , itfpz. 



I Have lately feen a Collection of Petrifications witb 

 Mr. Beaumont 3 amongft the reft is the X^/V 

 Aflroites, which is a fort of Coral generated in the 

 Seas I between the Tropicks$ and it feem'd to be 

 fo clearly that, as nothing plainer. 'Tis turn'd to 

 Flint, and the Interfaces between the ftarry Pores are 

 tranfparent. One of this kind he {hewed to me was 

 half petrify'd, the other half remaining, like a com- 

 mon Star Stone. He fhew'd 'me likewife many Im- 

 preffions of feveral Plants in Slatt , as Ferns , Flags, 

 &c. very fair and plain, with feveral Stalks of Plants 

 petrify'd and enclos'd in Flint, which he talks of pub- 

 lifhing together with fome Figures of,- and reafonings 

 upon them. 



Mr. Ray's Anfwer to Dr. Robin fen. 



SIR, ' x . ■ , ' ,/.r ^.jj^^B^ 



IReceiv'd yours of March 2,0 th , in an anfwer where- 

 to I can only tell you as to the firft particular , 

 about Bifuk and Quadrifulc , that the Reafons why 

 1 conje&ure the Rhinocerot and Hippopotamus to be 

 ^drifuic are5 ( w hat I intimated before) the bignefs and 

 pofition of the outward Hoofs, as they are repre- 

 sented in the Sculps, not being fet at that diftance 



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