208 GILBEET WHITE OF SELBORNE 1772 



PHIALS. 

 No. 1. Gasterost, ovatus ? Zeus aper ; Labrus ; Perca ? 

 „ 2. Esox Saurus. 



„ 3. Cancer Squilla carinata ; Percce ; Gdbii. 

 „ 4. Cancer squil. carin. ; Trigla verticillata ; Perca. 

 „ 5. Trigla lucerna ; Track. Draco. 



You will also receive the outlines of the following fishes : — 

 Squalus cenirina : Scicenal Borrico minor ; Scomber pelamis ; 



Scicena ; Cor&o ; Esox Saurus ; Gasterosteus Saltatrix ; Lepid- 



ojms ; Perca vel Zeus ? novus capite diaphano. 



Among the rest I send you the short-eared owl of ' British 

 Zoology ' omitted before. 



My thanks are due for your thoughts on the former cargo. 



Your tour through Scotland appears to me to be a very 

 engaging work; and the town it is plain, is of the same 

 opinion; for the book has a great run. 



I regret that I was obliged to leave town before I had 

 seen your genera avium.* Your Synopsis quadrupedum gives 

 me satisfaction. 



When I came to town I found a long letter from Linnaeus 

 to my Brother John lying in Fleet-street, occasioned by 

 an epistle and some phials of insects sent by the latter to 

 the former. The old arch-naturalist writes with spirit still ; 

 and is very open and communicative, acknowledging that 

 several of the Insects were new to him. He languishes to see 

 a pratincola, being conscious that it belongs not to the genus 

 of hirundo. 



Please to order the fishes that are ascertained to be thrown 

 away ; I mean those in spirits. 



I am, sir, 



Your most obedient and 



Humble servant, 

 Gil. White. 



* This must liave been in MS., as the first edition of the book was not 

 published till the following year. Copies of it are exceedingly rare. — A. N. 



