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whofe Hands they are, and therefore I doubt not bur 
they will be carefully and fpeedily publilhd, unlets 
pofiibly, it may not be thought as proper, being poft- 
humous and incoherent Pieces, to have them printed m 
your Transitions, which is a faving Regifter of many 
good things, which eife would be in danger to be loft ; 
befides the advantages of Defign, which here will coft 
the Author nothing, and which is the great Trouble in 
the Publication of things relating to Natural Hiltory ; 
you are beft able to condud: and manage fuch Papers 
through the Hands of unruly Men, fuch as the Gravers 
are, as being excellently well skilled in that Art. How- 
ever, I think it will be very obliging in you, to offer 
to my Lord of London your Service in that kind, be- 
fore my Lord lhall have otherwife difpofed of them. 
In the meantime, to give you a flight touch out of 
my Papers of what he was doing, I will extract a Line 
or two out of Three or Four Letters which I received 
from him. 
Virginia, May 5. 1668. 
I have fent you what Variety of Land or Frejh- water 
Snails our Country affords, at leaft what I have olferved 
in it, ofthofe J did receive alout 10 or iz Species, which 
I have taken care to Figure. 
April 19. 1689. 
I have fent you what Mufcles our Frejhes afford, at 
lead what as yet come within my Qhfervation. 
I received Six Species, which I have caufed very care- 
fully to be Figured and Graved. 
/ have alfo fent a parcel of Drawings rowled up for my 
Lord of London ; they are mofl of them of Flants com- 
mon 
