474 RICHARD ANTHONY SALISBURY [1793. 



nature to kill an animal, ever so little, only to examine it, and to 

 know it. Therefore, my Fauna Lancastriensis is very small. 

 Birds, I have observed only fifty, which I could find figured in 

 Edwards. Snakes, very few. Tortoises, I think, eight different 

 species, amongst them your ecelata, only less. Of these, I have 

 gathered the shells, and would be exceeding glad to get some more. 

 I have the Snapper, Land Turtle or Carolina, L., the striped (picta, 

 Gmelini), dotted, musk, Terrapin, the running, or your ecelata but 

 a bad and too small exemplar ; and miss one, which comes near to 

 the Musk T., only that the under shell is wholly shut up. I ob- 

 served it on the banks of your river. Of Insects, I have a middling 

 collection ; but can't class them, well. 



Fish, we have but few, the Susquehanna being too far off. I 

 only remember Pike, Catfish, Salmon Trout, Trout, Rock-fish, Sun- 

 fish, Mullet, Sucker, Carp, Shad, Perch, Minnows, Eels, and, from 

 the Susquehanna, Gar, and some straggling Herrings, and Stur- 

 geons. 



You have a noble seat, to observe fish and passage birds : and 

 if ever your time would permit, I would be very happy to have, 

 from your hands, a catalogue of the Delaware and Schuylkill fish. 

 I have Catesby ; and if you could cite a figure, I would understand 

 the name better. 



However, it is time to drop the pen. You see I am very talka- 

 tive, when I have to deal with a correspondent. Have patience 

 with me, and retaliate. 



Give my best respects to your brother ; and believe me to be, 

 with the greatest esteem, 



Sir, your very sincere friend, 



Henry Muhlenberg. 



Lancaster, December 10th, 1792. 



RICHARD ANTHONY SALISBURY* TO WILLIAM BARTRAM. 



Chapel Allerton, near Leeds, Yorkshire, 7th July, 1793. 



Dear Sir : 



Though we have not the least personal knowledge of each other, 

 I cannot miss an opportunity which now offers, of thanking you for 



* The Botanical Editor of Rees's Cyclopaedia, under the Art. Salisburia, says 

 that genus was so named "in honour of Richard Anthony Salisbury, Esqr., 

 F.R.S. and F.L.S., of whose acuteness and indefatigable zeal in the service of 

 Botany, no testimony is necessary in this [the Linn^an] Society, nor in any place 

 which his writings have reached." 



