44 hivi^ of Mr, RAY. 
very heartily to keep up the Society’s 
Correlpondence, and get all the In- 
formation he could about curious Mat- 
ters, from all Perfons that he knew, 
or heard, were able to furnifh him 
with any. And the better to ac- 
complifh his Ends, he would fend 
his ingenious Correfpondents an Ac- 
count of Matters that came to his 
Knowledge, as well as exped a plen- 
tiful Return from them. And fuch 
are the Letters which Mr. Ray abun- 
dantly anfwered ; fome of which 
Accounts Mr. Oldenburgh publilhed 
in the Philofophical ‘Tranfa&ions,^ as 
about St. Paul's Bat toons,, the. P"ro- 
chites of Muforoonts, Maize, the 
Mifchiefs of fome poifonous Plants, 
the Bleeding of Tdrees, and Motion of 
their Sap, fpontaneous Generation, 
mujk-fcented InfeSls, the Scolopendra, 
the acid fuice of Pifmires, the Dart- 
ing of Spiders, the Anatomy of the 
