jives omnes haBemis cognitce^ in methodum 
tiiris fu'is convenient em redaBce accurate defer 
bunfur, Iconihus elegantijjimis et vivanim 
avium Jimillimis c;eri incijis illujtrantur. Totum 
opus recognovity digejjit, fupplevit "Johannes 
Raius." Land. 1676, foL pp. 307, t. 77, 
f- 353- 
Mr. Ray tranflated this work into 'Eng- 
lifiy and publifhed it, with large additions, 
in 1678, with figures engraved at the ex- 
pence of Mrs. WiLLUGHBY. The exe- 
cution of the figures was wholly inadequate 
to the merit of the work. Thefe occupa- 
tions, however, did not prevent him from 
renewing a correfpondence with Mr. Ol- 
PENBURGH, fecretary of the Royal Society, 
a learned German, who, after having re- 
fided fome time at Oxford^ had been chofen 
into that office at the firft eftablifhment of 
the fociety. Mr. Ray, in the year 1674, 
was induced to engage, at the requeft of 
the fociety, with other diftant members, to 
furnifh obfervations on the fubjects of na- 
tural hiftory, to be read at their meetings j 
the fociety notwithftanding the extreme di- 
ligence of the fecretary, and fome few 
others^ 
