BY DR. DKRHAM. 



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incessant in bis studies, that he allowed himself little or 

 no time for those recreations and diversions which men 

 of his estate and degree are apt to spend too much of 

 their time in ; but he prosecuted his design with as great 

 application as if he had been to get his bread thereby ; 

 all which I mention, not only out of the great respect I 

 bear to Mr. Willughby's memory, but for an example (as 

 has been before recommended) to persons of great estate 

 and quality, that they may be excited to answer the ends 

 for which God gives them estates, leisure, parts, and gifts, 

 or a good genius ; which was not to exercise themselves 

 in vain or sinful follies, but to be employed for the glory 

 and in the service of the infinite Creator, and in doing 

 good offices in the world, particularly such as tend to the 

 credit and profit of their own families. 



But to return to the ' Ornithology.' After Mr. Ray 

 had published it, as I said, in Latin, he set about trans- 

 lating it into English, which, when he had finished, he 

 published in the year 1678, with large additions, together 

 with the figures of the birds, which Mr. Willughby's 

 widow was at the charge of engraving. And, considering 

 how well the engravers were paid for their labour, it is 

 great pity they had not had some able person in London 

 to have supervised them, that they might have given 

 better likenesses to the birds than what most of them 

 have. But this is what Mr. Ray could only complain of 

 but not help, by reason of his being in Warwickshire, at 

 a distance from London, where everything was trans- 

 acted by letters, a method which could never afi'ord 

 sufficient directions in a matter of that nature. 



Having given an account of the publication of 

 the 'Ornithology' in 1675 and 1678, let us return 

 again to the years 1675 and 1676, about which time 

 the old Lady Willughby (mother of Mr. Francis Wil- 

 lughby) died, and Mr. Willughby's sons being re- 

 moved from under Mr. Ray's tuition,* he thought it best 



* How faithful he was in the discharge of his trust, and the great concern 



