48 7 }>e Life Mr. RAY. 
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fign it may not be improper here to 
give fome Account, which I fhall 
do, as I had it from Mr. Ray him- 
felf, when I waited upon him at 
Black-Notley^ May the 15 th, 1704; 
viz. 
Thele two Gentlemen, finding the 
Hiftory of Nature very imperfed:, 
had agreed between themfelves, be- 
fore their Travels beyond Sea, to re- 
duce the feveral Tribes of Things 
to a Method; and to give accurate 
Defcriptions of the feveral Species, 
from a ftrid View of them. And 
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forafmuch as Mr. JVillughby\ Genius- 
lay chiefly to Animals, therefore he 
undertook the Birdsy Beaftsy Fijhesy 
znd' htfe&Sy as Mr. Ray did Ve- 
getables. And how each of thefe ■ 
two great Men difcharged his Pro- 
vince, the World hath leen in their 
Works. Which fhew, that Mr. Ray 
lived 
