2 2 The L,iv% of Mr. R A Y. 
wondered at, that fuch an Account 
fliould be defedtive at the Beginning, 
before they had fully . weighed and 
conhdered fo new a Subiedt, as that 
was, at that time, a Part of Learn- 
ing but little ftudied and cultivated, 
that lay confufed, and without any, 
or no better than no Method; but 
which thofe two great Men fo cleared 
up, methodized, and advanced, that 
to them may be aferibed a great deal 
of that Perfedlion to which Natural 
Hiftory is now arrived. 
Having traced our great Man’s 
Life to the Year 1667, and 39th 
Year of his Age, the next Thing I 
meet with is his farther Profecution 
of his Refearches into the Hiftory of 
Nature, the Summer of this Year, 
by another Journey into the Weft of 
England., in Company with his moft 
honoured and beloved Friend Mr. 
. Willu'ghby. 
