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Mr. Pennant has heard of your pursuits, and desires to 

 promote them. As to fishes, he says you must get 

 Briinnich's history of those of Marseilles; and Gouan on 

 fish: the last lives at Monpellier. Can't you contrive to 

 correspond with him? He has written to Mr. Pennant. 

 He expects the birds and fishes of Leghorn and Naples 

 soon, and is ready to communicate them. 



Mineralogy must not be neglected. 



In order to assist your enquiries Mr. Pennant sends you 

 a list of such animals as are known to belong to the southern 

 parts of Europe. Your wine proves very sound and good. 



In June, 1770, the Naturalist visited his relatives 

 in London, noting in his Journal the occurrence 

 of hinds on Bagshot Heath ; and later in the summer 

 received his friends, Mr. and Mrs. John Mulso, from 

 Witney, at Selborne. Mulso proposed to proceed to 

 Alton, where, it may be noted, he asked that " some 

 able guide" should meet him at the Swan Inn, in 

 order to conduct him through the devious lanes to 

 Selborne. 



Writing on September 16th, after thanking his 

 old friend for his kindness and hospitality, Mulso 

 continues — 



" My daughter has learned such a curiosity from you about 

 Zoology and its Genera that nothing but providing some 

 ' Systema Naturae ' hereafter for her will be able to allay. 

 If any errata should come of it you are concerned to look 

 to them, for it is all your own doing : as to my wife 

 I don't believe she cares a farthing about the Difference 

 between a Penguin and the Coleojptera. ... I find my 

 garden here very disgusting to me after the extreme neat- 

 ness and beautiful grace of yours." 



