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Excerpt from The Naturalist's Library, Vol. 2: Entomology; Beetles John ray was born on the 29th November 1628, at a place named Black Notley, in Essex. Although the name of his family was Ray, he continued all the time he attended the university to write it Wray, a form in which it accordingly appears in the college registers, and in some of his earliest publi cations. This alteration was soon however aban doned, and he confesses himself to have adopted it inconsiderately, and contrary to the usage of his fore fathers. His parents were of humble condition, but they were enabled to provide for the liberal educa tion of their son. His early studies were pursued at the grammar school of Braintree, which was not far distant from the place of his birth. In his maturer years he used to lament that so much of his time had been spent there unprofitably, owing to the imperfect mode of education pursued - a complaint pretty generally applicable to such institutions at the period of which we speak. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.