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drawing, yet he trusts such rude sketches will inform an 

 Ichthyologist better than mere words. 



As I have a few shells and fossils, I should take it as 

 a favour if you would (when you return the box) add a 

 few ores and fossils to my collection such as your mines 

 and neighbourhood afford ; a few will be sufficient. 



Pray, when in this Spring do you intend to be in town ? 

 Still I hope to meet you there some time or other. 



I am much pressed at present, and must stop here, but 

 propose to write again not long hence. Pray, when does 

 Mr. Banks sail?* 



On March 19th, 1772, another letter on the same 

 subject to Pennant was written from Selborne, but 

 not published. 



Your obliging letter of Feb. 21st came safe to this place 

 and followed me up to town; where I also received your 

 favour of March 1st. 



While I was in London came from Gibraltar a box con- 

 taining (besides several birds which you have seen before) 

 Ardea alba minor \ perhaps the 6 of Ray*s synopsis avium i 

 Charadrius alexandrinus. These are all the new birds. 



In a bottle Sparus mosnal Salmo eperlanus Calpensis: 

 Uennius supercilios: cancer arctos. 



In a phial Squali foetus : cancer arctos : lahrus. 



These are all left with my Brother Tho. who will add 

 them to the cargo I am sending up. 



I also looked out the pratincola, which will be sent with the 



rest. There can be no doubt of its being a genus ^er se. When I 



came home I found by the Liverpool frigate a box containing: — 



Mustella lutra. Trigla volitan^ : and 



Squallus glaucus. some birds seen 



„ mustelus. before ; all dryed. 



Uranoscopus scaler. 



* Banks, disappointed of a second voyage round the world, in this year 

 undertook one to Iceland. — A. N. 



