Mr. Ray to Sir Hans Sloane, 321 



Undertaking I fhould not be much averfe from , if it 

 pleafe God to continue me any tolerable meafure of 

 Health andEafe* for that I may do fitting, and with- 

 out much motion, but then they mult be fent down 

 to me by Parcels. As for our Englijh Infefits, I think 

 I may, without Vanity, fay, that I have taken more 

 pains about fome Tribes of them , than any Englijlo* 

 man before me. If I were to publifh a Hijtory of In* 

 fetts in each Tribe, I would firft place the Englijh 

 ones by themfelves, and then the Exoticks. 



I have by me a Hiftory of our Diurnal Englijh Pa* 

 pilios of my own knowledge, which I drew up fome 

 Years fince, they are in number about 40. I under* 

 ftand that Mr. Petiver hath feveral new ones fent 

 him out of Cornwall which I fuppofe he will fhortly 

 publifh. In cafe you think fit to employ me in this 

 Service, I would begin with the Tribe of Papilios* 

 becaufe therein I have taken the moft pains, though 

 that be far from the firft Tribe. For I divide Infers 

 into Apoda and Pedata. And Pedata into 'Pedata 

 tantum y and Pedata £s? Alata fimul^ and thefe laft I 

 Would divide according to Swammer dam's Method. 



Black Notley, Febr. 23. 1702. 



Mr. Thoresby to Mr. Ray. 



Honoured S IRj 



THIS additional Lift of Local Words is larger 

 than I expe£ted, and therein you will quickly 

 obierve feveral Words already inferted in your very 

 curious and accurate Colle&ion s but then 'tis either 

 when the fame Word has a different Significatioii, 

 (which is not uncommon) or pronounced after fo 

 different a Manner, as confiderably to alter the Or- 

 thography : Or laftly, when the Etymology has fal- 



