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 com̄on 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 com̄on 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.]
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.]