20 Life o/ Mr. RAY. 
the Bujtnefs about ( 4 ) great Rakes, 
turning over Kircher\ Mundus fub- 
terraneus, &cc. The mojl Part of the . 
Winter I fpent in revietscing, and 
helping to put in Order, Mr. Wil- 
lughby’r ColleEiion of Birds, Fijhes, ' 
Shells, Stones, and other Foffds ; Seeds, 
dried Plants, Coins, &c. ; in giving 
what Affifattce I could to Dr. Wil- 
kins, in framing his Tables of Plants, 
Quadrupeds, Birds, Fifoes, &c. for 
the Ufe oj the mtiverjal CharaEler 
in gathermg up into a Catalogue all 
fuch Plants as I had found at atty 
time growing wild in England, not' 
in order to the prefent Publifking of 
them, but for my own Uje', pojftbly 
otte Day they may fee the Fight', at 
prefent the IV irld is glutted with Dr, 
Merret’r bimgling Pinax. I refolve.. 
(4) They are now come into general Ufe 
among the Farmers, and are called Drag-Rakes, 
7uver 
