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of “ Collections for an Athens Cantab,” ("now in 
the British Museum,) which was intended to have 
oeen to Cambridge, what Wood’s Athens Oxo- 
nienses et Fasti, is to Oxford, the following 
passage occurs : — “ Fra. Willughby, a.m. Col. 
Trinity, 1659, a.b. 16^. Mr Willughby was 
Mr James Duport’s pupil at Trinity College, to 
whom, and three others, he, Mr Duport, dedicated 
his Gnomologia, 1660. — Baker." 
Now, the only mention of the name Duport, 
in any possible relation to Mr Willughby, is that 
which occurs in Dr Derham’s Life of Mr Ray, 
page 3. ; in the following words, “ When he, 
(that is, Mr Ray,) went to Trinity, he had the 
happiness to have Dr Duport for his tutor, a man 
well known for his learning, particularly for his 
great skill in Greek, which he gave the world 
good proof of in his Homerical Translations of 
Job, and other Hagiographa.” 
In Chalmers’s Biographical Dictionary, the 
only instance of the name James Duport, is of 
this Dr James Duport, as appears by the tran- 
slations of the Old Testament, which are in that 
account ascribed to him. Neither is any other 
Duport mentioned, except one John Duport, of 
the year 1580. 
And in the Graduati Cantabrigienses, the only 
instance of any one of the name Duport, who, 
previously to the year 1787, had graduated in 
that University, is noticed in these words, 
“ Duport, James, S.T.P. per literas regias, 1661.” 
In Chalmers’s Dictionary, it is said of him, that 
