Haue you putt in nerites another little Testaceum which wee haue [_see Note 83_]. Haue you an Apiaster a small bird calld a Beebird.[117] [117] Probably the Spotted Flycatcher is here referred to, the prefix not being used in a technical sense; it is known here as the Beam-bird, either of which names may be a corruption of the other. Another Norfolk name for this bird is the Wall-bird. Haue you morinellus marinus or the sea Dotterell better colourd then the other & somewhat lesse [_see Note 28_]. I send you a draught of 2 small birds the bigger called a Chipper or Betulæ Carptor [_see Note 48_] cropping the first sproutings of the Birch trees & comes early in the spring. The other a very small bird lesse than the certhya or ox eyecreeper called a whinne bird I send you the draught of a fish taken sometimes in our seas [_see Note 69_]. pray compare it with Draco minor Johnstoni. this draught was taken from the fish dried & so the prickly finnes less discernible. There is a very small kind of smelt [_see Note 71_] butt in shape & smell like the other taken in good plenty about [wh _crossed out_] Lynne & called Primmes. Though Scombri Or Makerells [_see Note 73_] bee a co[=m]on fish yet [in _crossed out_] our seas afford sometimes strange & large ones as I haue heard from fishermen & others. & this yeare 1668 one was taken at Lestoffe an ell long by measure & presented to a Gentleman a friend of myne. Musca Tuliparum moschata is a small beelike flye [_see Note 108_] of an excellent fragrant odour which I haue often found at the bottom of the flowers of Tuleps. [_Fol. 44._] In the little box I send a peece of vesicaria or seminaria marina [yo _crossed out_] cutt of from a good full one found on the sea shoare [_see Note 91_]. Wee haue [_two or three words smeared out here_] also an eiectment of the sea very co[=m]on which is fanago [_see Note 91_] whereof some very large. I thank you for communicating the account of Thunder & lightening some strange effects thereof I haue found heere butt this last yeere wee had litle or no Thunder & lightening. [_No signature._] No. V. DR. BROWNE TO MERRETT. [This letter which was originally printed in the "Posthumous Works," will be found in MS. Sloane 1911-13, fol. 106, where it is headed in pencil as addressed to Sir Wm. Dugdale, but it was restored to its proper place by Wilkin in the 1836 Edition of the Works, i., p. 404.] Honoured Sir