Ray, 269 
Lister ; but the greater part of his 
work was drawn up from his own ad'ual 
defcriptions, and partly from Mr. Wil- 
lughby's papers^ and the contributions 
of friends, Mr. Petiver, Mr. Dan- 
DRiDGE, Dr. Sloane, Mr. Morton, 
and Mr. Stonefleet. 
He tells us, that in the later years of his 
life he had difcovered 300 kinds of PapiHos^ 
diurnal and nocfturnal ; and knew there were 
many more. The Beetles, he obferves, were 
as numerous, and the Flies not lefs fo. I 
mention thefe circumftances to prove the 
extenlive knowledge of nature which this 
extraordinary man pofTeffed, at an ^era when 
he flood fo nearly alone in thefe branches 
of fcience. He did not live to finifli this 
v/ork. It was publiilied by Dr. Derham 
in 1710, in 4°. pp. 398* 
I believe Mr. Ray was the firft who 
gave to thefe minuter animals a real and 
fcientific diftribution. He had drawn up a 
fliort^* Methodus Insectorum," which 
was publifhed the year after his death. Of 
the hiftory itfelf, it is fufficient to fay, that 
it bears all the charafters of that accurate, 
difcriminatingj 
