Letter 0646

[fol. 84] Dear Sr. I read yrs & thank you heartily for ye transactions & yr trouble about ye yr cases. I shall write Venice speedily, if about any thing ghence, let me know having some mon–ey due to me there, wch I design to lay out in Books I read a letter lately from Mr. Ray, who sayd his methody is finished & yt he would add to it avicshode for grasses. I with you would contrive to get it printed. I work for him every day & was it not for yt diversion I should not be able to stay here. I never met wth any body yt has so little genius for learning (or anything else for hoses, dogs &sport) as his grace, wch sometimes makes me uneasy if I cam rubout ye time I promise I’le do not dispair of any sort of [?] tho it was to be (dark) Carshusian Mr. Ray will send me every section as he finishes them to look over & add what I can. if I shall wth pleasure do ye little I can to render ye work more compleat he wants an [?] of sker-backs Thegh Fungi, Wch I woud make if I had it. [fol. 84v] there is also some actts of Fungi at ye end of an Acct. of [?] writ in English in 8vo wch shoud be added & compared wth those describd elsewhere; I question not but you have it. I writ to Mr. Petiver Sept. 21 but he will not voulh safe me an answer when I walk out I divert my self wth moff cropping; I have dryd a great many sorts, some I think new. I have makd out a great many & design to gather them in all their states, wch will reduce them to fewer then are mentioned. Pray wn you see Mr. Buddle, give him my service & tell him I lay by for & expect ye same on his side. my ser-vice to yr good family & all friends at ye Tarished Coffee house. Your Dear Sr. yr most obliged humble servt WSherard Badmington Oct. 28th 1700