
The Preface. 
jection in my way, That the firft projectors feldome 
bring their bufinefs to any good end : yet Lalfo knew, 
That if Men fhould ftay for an Example in every thing ; 
nothing extraordinary would ever be done. 

But notwithftanding the reafonablenefs of the De- 
fign; yet I did not forget, that, in refpect of the 
Undertaker, there might be Impar congreffus. And there- 
fore, before I had ventured very far, in the Year 1668, 
I imparted it to my Brother-in-Law, the Learned Dr. 
Henry Samplon, now Fellow of the Colledge of Phyfi- 
cians in London. Who not only very well liked the 
fame; but alfo excited me toa vigorous and accurate 
profecution of it. Which he did, partly, by mentioning 
a very pertinent paflage of Dr. Glifon, in the Preface to 
(a) Ch.x. his Book, de Hepate, (a) which1 had not then read. 

Plantae quoque in bune cenfum (fc. Anatomicum) veniunt ; 
varia enim Partium textura, & differentiis conftant : > pro- 
culdubio, ex acurata earundem diffeEtione, utiles valde obfer= 
vationes nobis exurgerent : preflaretque in illis ( inferioris 
licet ordinis ) rebus examinandis operam impendere, quam in 
tranfcribendis ut {ape fit,aliorum laboribus, inutiliter etatem 
tranfigere. Quippe hoc patto, ignavarum apum more, aliena 
duntaxat alvearia expilamus,nihilque bono publico adjicimus. 


After I had finithed the Firft Book, that Imight know 
the fenfe alfo of other Learned Men, whether the {teps 
Thad already taken, would warrant me to proceed any 
further: I put fome part of it into the fame Hand ; 
who, in the Year 1670, communicated the fame to 
Mr. Oldenburge , then Secretary to the Royal Society: 
and after he had read it over, it was, upon his motion, de- 
livered to that excellent Perfon Dr. john Wilkins then 
Bifbop of Chefter; who produced it at a Meeting of the 
Royal Society, and defired, they might fee the reft. Which, 
or the greateft part, being alfo prefented to them,the Right 
Honourable the Lord Vicount Brouncker, then Prefident 
of the Royal Society, was pleated to perufe the. fame. 
Prefently, after which, ata Meeting of the Council 
of 

