70 CORRESPONDENCE OF THE 



This Mr. White in London is my brother, and will very 

 punctually forward anything to Gibraltar. 



I must now beg your pardon for the liberty I have thus 

 taken to trouble you with intelligence which to a person of 

 your extraordinary experience may be but trifling. However, 

 should any part of it prove in the least degree acceptable , it 

 cannot fail of giving much satisfaction to, good Sir, 

 Your sincere admirer, 



And devoted humble servant, 



JOHN WHITE. 



Be pleased to write to me in any of the following languages, 

 English, Latin, French, or Italian. 



LETTEE II.* 



FKOM LINNAEUS TO THE REV. JOHN WHITE. 



YIRO REVERENDISSIMO DNO. JOHANN. WHITE 



S. pi. d. 

 CAR. LINNE. 



LITERAS tuas Y. R. die 30 Junii ante octiduum plane con- 

 sternatus aperui, dum tu, cui nunquam mihi fortuna innotes- 

 cere concessit, mihi offers tuam gratiam, tuasque divitias 

 naturalium rerum. Mihi verba deficiunt explicandum affec- 

 tum meum sincerum in virum tanto virtutis robore. Gratulor 

 scientiae quam ambo in deliciis habemus, quod qui fata rerum 

 gubernat, te excitaverit in admirationem mundani operis 

 Artificis. Nullum ego novi in regione quam inhabitas cui 

 Deus antea concessit apertos oculos intueri naturalia, ubi con- 

 currunt Hispanicse, LusitanicaB, Barbarise plantae, insecta, 

 aves, reliquaque animalia; adfretum penetrabunt pisces omnes 

 qui ex oceano in M. Mediterraneum ire et redire debent. 



* [This letter was printed in ' Contributions to Ornithology,' ] 849, 

 pp. 28, 29, A, N.] 



