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MEMOIR OF 
consequence of the favourable reception the 
Catalogus Plantarum met with, Mr Ray resolved 
to extend his acquaintance with English plants ; 
and having already taken one excursion for this 
purpose alone in the month of August, 1658, he 
set out on another in company with Mr Wil- 
lughby in July, 1661. They started from Cam- 
bridge on the 26th, and travelled northward, 
proceeding through Huntingdon, Stilton, .Peter- 
borough, Lincolnshire, Yorkshire, the Bishoprick 
of Durham, Northumberland, and so into Scot- 
land as far as Glasgow and Stirling, and thence 
back again through Cumberland and Westmore- 
land to Cambridge. They seem to have observed 
whatever was worthy of notice, — churches, cathe- 
drals, monuments, inscriptions, customs, natural 
productions of various kinds, trades, commerce, 
&c. — still, however, keeping their botanical pur- 
suits chiefly in view, and in which they discovered 
numerous plants. They finished their journey 
August 30, 1661. This, with other of their 
excursions for scientific purposes, is published 
in Dr Derham’s Life of Ray, under the name of 
Itineraries. In the Philosophical Letters there is 
one* from Mr Ray to Mr Willughby, dated, “ Coll. 
Trinity, Feb. 25, 1659,” but which was more 
probably written some time in the year 1660 or 
1661, in which Mr Ray submits to him “one or 
two of his designs,” desiring his “ sentence and 
epinion of the whole ; and then, in case of his 
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