Letter 0550

Ray forwards Sloane excerpts from Boccone’s work and hopes they have arrived. He apologizes in advance for its poor prose. Ray has also forwarded Kamel’s papers, as he feels they deserve to be published in the Philosophical Transactions. Ray can return Sloane’s books if he needs them, but he hopes to use them a bit more for his Supplement. Ray was a theologian and naturalist who collected and catalogued his botanical findings in the much lauded Historia plantarum (1686, 1688) (Scott Mandelbrote, Ray , John (16271705), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2005 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/23203, accessed 18 June 2013]).