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They run much on the fiibjed of zoology 5 
but contain alfo botanical, and philofophi- 
cal obfervations. 
Thefe letters, and the publications of 
Dr. Robinson, in- the Fhilofophtcal Tiranf^ 
aBio?2Sy prove him to have been a man v^ell 
acquainted with various parts of learning ; 
to which he added alfo an intimate know^ 
ledge of natural hiftory, and in which he 
muft have been very early initiated 5 fince 
Ray, in the Prefaces to his Hiftoria Plan^ 
taruni) in 1686, acknowledges, in ftrong 
terms, his obhgations to him, for his care 
and affiduity in correfting and enriching his 
work I adding, that he had exerted himfelf 
with a zeal that could not have been ex- 
ceeded, had the work been entirely his 
own, 
Mr, Ray afterwards put into his hands 
the manufcript of the Synopjis, and renewed 
his acknowledgments for the bejiefit it re- 
ceived under his infpedion 
Dr. RojBiNSON was th-e author of the 
follov^ing communications, printed in thi^ 
Philofophical TranfaBions. . . . , / 
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