324 CHAPTER 24. 
thod, may have arifen from their being lefs 
acquainted with Biihop Wilkins's work, 
which was extant only in the Englifh tongue, 
Mr. Ray informs us, in the fecond edition 
of his Catalogus Plant arum Anglian y that 
Dr. WiLKiNs meditated a tranflation of 
his Univerfal Character" into Latin y with 
figures, for the ufe of foreigners ; and Mr. 
Ray himfelf performed it : but the death 
of this good prelate, in 1672, prevented the 
completion of the defign. He adds, that his 
Method, in a more elaborate flate, had been 
delivered into the Biihop's hands, for the 
above-mentioned work. 
Dr. Mori SON exhibited the outlines of 
his fcheme in the Hortus Blefen/isy* the 
year after the publication of the Bifliop's 
book, and exemplified it in his Hiftory of 
Plants," in 1680. Mr. Ray did not de«« 
tail his till the year 1682, in the " Metho- 
dusy' in which he freely acknov/ledges the 
afiiftance he received from C^^salpinus, 
CoLUMNA, JuNGius, and even from Mo- 
rison's work. On the contrary. Dr. 
MoRisoN affumes to himfelf the merit of 
having drawn all his refources, in the fa-« 
brication 
