44 LETTERS TO HIS BROTHER 



N.B. Tiphys was pilot to the Argonautic expedition ; and 

 a type of Columbus. 



All friends join in respects yours affect. 



GIL. WHITE. 



Sure your Fauna should sell outright for 100 clear of all 

 deductions. Mr. Pennant gets that sum for his new edition 

 of ( Brit. Zool. ; ' and your work will contain much more new, 

 original information. I want to see you the first of faunists. 

 With regard to anecdote and real nat. hist, the less you borrow 

 from books the better ; you have a large fund of your own. 

 Benj. will get very largely by Mr. P.'s Scotch tour. 



LETTER XX. 



Selborne, Oct. 4, 1775. 

 DEAR BROTHER, 



FROM the hurry arising from a full house while the Lyndon 

 family were with me ; and by means of Mr. Thos. Mulso, who 

 came as soon as they were gone to Fyfield, I find that your 

 letter has lain unanswered for three weeks. It is proper 

 therefore to sit down now I am alone, and answer your last 

 before my friends return from Fyfield. 



Mr. Barker sets out as this morning for Northamptonshire, 

 and takes his leave of Hants at my Bro. Harry's house ; but 

 the ladies and Sam return hither on Friday; and Harry accom- 

 panies them and stays with me a few days. How long my 

 sister &c. are to stay I cannot yet say. Your Fauna, to which 

 I think myself at least a foster-father, is become, I hear with 

 pleasure, a fine thriving child. I could be glad to examine 

 its features, and to dandle it, and remark how it shoots up 

 towards its rj\i/cia ; but the old difficulty of my church stands 

 still in my way, and is like to prove as great a remora as usual : 

 I am making enquiries concerning some assistance, but can 

 hear of nothing yet to my satisfaction. Mr. Grimm has not 



