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ME MO in OF 
In a letter to Dr Tancred Robinson, dated 
February 18, 1684, Mr Ray tells him that he had 
extracted out of Mr Willughby’s papers, revised, 
supplied, methodized, and fitted for the press, the 
Ichthyologia. Dr Tancred Robinson communi- 
cated it to the Royal Society ; and the members 
of that learned body, thinking that so good a 
work was worthy of being published, “ did, by the 
help of Bishop Fell, get it printed at the Theatre 
at Oxford, the Royal Society bearing the charge, 
and the cuts being engraved at the cost of divers 
worthy members of that learned body. The 
reason why none of Mr Willughby’s family afforded 
pecuniary assistance towards this work as to the 
former, may have been, that the widow of Mr 
Willughby was now married to Sir Josiah Child, 
and that both his sons were still very young. This 
book, although fewer materials were left for it 
than for the Ornithology, owing partly no doubt 
to the loss of Mr Willughby’s papers, containing 
his observations on fishes, while abroad, is also 
frequently included by Mr Ray as one amongst 
those several kinds of creatures, birds, beasts, 
affectu mutuo complectaris ; ut paria faeere eontemlas ; 
imo ut cum favore beneticium reponas, et agros fertiles 
imiteris, qui multo plus reddunt quam acceperunt. 
“ Ha'c sunt, qua tibi consulere officii mei esse duxi, ut 
ingrati, iaio injusti notam effugiam ; • ut qui benefiemm 
acciperem, officium autetn non praestarem ullam’- — qua; ut 
eodein, quo a me ammo profecta sunt, accipias ; eademque 
non ut monita mea, sed ut mandata paterna, imo divina 
respicias, et observes, rogo; meque habeas, pro humilissimo 
et fidissimo tuo cliente et servo.” — J. R. 
