[_Fol. 105._] Sr I craue your pardon for this delayed returne unto your last, whose courteus acceptance & worthy entertaynment [?] deserued [a speed _blotted out_] even a speedier reply. The small plant may fitly come in among the corallines upon the [diff _crossed out_] account of articulation Icthyorachius [_see Note 114_] I think will bee a good Diference [?]. whether you will subexpand [?] the word I referre it to yourself. certhia may best bee vertice aureo [_word blotted out_] or vertice aureo penicello vix imitando. morinellus marinus [_see Note 28_] I think rather then Aquaticus becuse it is seen most about the sea coast. Anas alis oculatis[120] rather then Anser for it is not altogether so longe as a wild duck. of porci solidipedes [_see Note 118_] there are still in this country in some places. and I am promised a pigge by a Gentleman that hath still a boar and sow of that kind. I tooke notice of them 26 years ago & having not lately [met with _crossed out_] met with any thought the race had been worne out butt I perceue it is not--they are whole footed in the forfeet & have [only _crossed out_] a seame only in the hinder. so they are animalia duplici nomine i[=m]unda. The wild swans or elk [_see Note 8_] in [very _crossed out_] lasting cold winters are most plentifull. It is larger then the River swan somewhat gray & of a lowder note & [differenced call _crossed out_] a recuruation of the Aspera arteria in the sternon as I noted in the margin long agoe in vulgar errors. the blicca marina [_see Note 74_] may well be named Harengiformis. [_several words smeared out_] I have the draught of that an Herring & a pilcher in one paper upon that account [Fol. 104 _verso_] I belieue [?] you were well informd of the cotta [_see_ p. 79] & fulica of our Ralla Aquatica I enclose a draught. [120] Possibly the Pintail, _Dafila acuta_ (Linn.), _see_ p. 77. Of porci solidipedes there are diuers still in the country in some places I am promised a pigge by a friend who cherisheth that [new _crossed out_] breed. I tooke notice of them 26 yeares ago, & hauing not lately minded them thought they had been worn out butt I perceiue they are not--some are more plainly wholefooted then others & especially in the fore feet & in the rest there is no thorough fissure butt at most a superficiall seame, so they are [No. 3 cap 27 _above_] Quadrupedia duplici nomine i[=m]unda. [This last paragraph seems to have been written by way of emendation of what appears above on the same subject. A photograph of a portion of the above letter will, by the courtesy of the Bodleian Librarian, be found as a frontispiece to this volume. Mr. Jenkinson, the Librarian of the University of Cambridge, and through him, Mr. G. F. Warner and Mr. Kenyon, of the Department of Manuscripts of the British Museum, have kindly interested themselves in the transcript of this letter, which was very difficult to decipher.] No. VIII. BIBLIOTHECA BODLEIANA (MS. RAWL. D. cviii.)