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into England, where he arrived about the beginning of 

 March 1665-6. 



How he spent this time after his arrival in his own 

 country, may be seen in a letter of his to Dr. Lister,* of 

 June 18th, 1667, in which he saith, " For my own part, 

 I cannot boast of many discoveries made the last year, 

 save of mine own errors. After I took my leave of you 

 at Cambridge, I divided the remainder of the summer 

 between Essex and Sussex, visiting several friends. My 

 spare hours I bestowed in reading over such books of 

 natural philosophy as came out since my being abroad, 

 viz. Mr. Hook's ' Micrographia,' Mr. Boyle's ' Usefulness 

 of Natural Philosophy,' ' Origine of Forms,' ' Hydrostatical 

 Paradoxes,' Sydenham ' de Eebribus,' ' The Philosophical 

 Transactions,' 'the Business about great Rakes,'! turning 

 over Kircher's ' Mundus subterraneus,' &c. The most part 

 of the winter I spent in reviewing, and helping to put in 

 order, Mr. Willughby's collection of birds, fishes, shells, 

 stones, and other fossils ; seeds, dried plants, coins, &c. ; 

 in giving what assistance I could to Dr. Wilkins, in 

 framing his tables of plants, quadrupeds, birds, fishes, &;c., 



* Lister, Martin, m.d., was born of a Yorkshire family, in the county of 

 Buckingham, in 1638. He studied at St. John's College, Cambridge, of 

 which he was made a fellow by royal mandate in 1670. He commenced the 

 practice of physic in York, but removed to London in 1683. In 1698 he 

 attended the Earl of Portland in his embassy to the court of Trance, and on 

 his return published the result of his observations in a work entitled ' A 

 Journey to Paris,' London, 1698, 8vo. He wrote several medical works. 

 He was contemporary with Sydenham, and occasionally indulged in very 

 severe remarks upon the practice of that great physician. His labours in 

 natural history are of more value than those in medicine. He contributed 

 upwards of thirty papers on various departments of zoology and botany to 

 the ' Philosophical Transactions.' He also pubHshed the following works on 

 natural history : ' Histories Animalium tres Tractatus ; unus de Araneis ; 

 alter de Cochleis terrestribus et fluviatilibus ; tertius de Cochleis marinis,' 

 London, 4to, 1678 ; 'Exercitatio Anatomica de Cochleis maxime terrestribus 

 et Limacibus,' London, 8vo, 1694 ; ' Exercitatio Anatomica altera de Buc- 

 cinis fluviatilibus et marinis,' London, 8vo, 1695 ; 'Exercitatio tertia Con- 

 chyliorum Bivalvium,' London, '4to, 169,6. He was an industrious and ac- 

 curate observer, and exercised an important influence on the departments of 

 natural history, to which his attention was more particularly directed. He 

 died in 1711. 



f They are now come into general use among the farmers, and are called 

 drag-rakes. — G. S. 



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