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have dispatched the house-martin, and my letter is to be 

 read before the Royal Society. I wish I knew a little more 

 about the bank-martin. Does Mr. Lever know anything 

 about the bank-martin that can be depended on? Harry's 

 little folks, all but Harry Woods, are down with the 

 whooping cough. While Brother Benjamin and family were 

 at Newton, Mr. Pain discovered at London that James 

 White had got a cataract or film on one of his eyes. 

 Brother Harry is going to have a West Indian boy at 

 £100 per annum. If Mr. H. Woods* could be prevailed on 

 to take an apprentice he would be the best Master I know, 

 as he is always at home ; but Brother Benjamin asked him 

 the question with respect to Edmund, f but he has never 

 returned any answer. Jack is taller somewhat than Mr. 

 Yalden, and grows large in his limbs. Mrs. Snooke has 

 never heard any more of her lawsuit. Poor Mr. John 

 Warnford, of C. C. C, is, I see, just dead, and his lecture 

 disposed of. If he had a College living, as I take for 

 granted he had, then there is a parsonage at Skinner's 

 option. I fear Mr. W. has left a widow. Easter, I find, 

 comes this year very early, and will cruelly intersect the 

 spring, as I must attend an election at Oriel in Easter week. 

 Your fauna, I fear, begins to languish, as I hear nothing 

 of it in your last. I should be sorry to find that you 

 neglect to arrange and methodise so many fine materials. 

 If you don't make haste I shall publish before you. All 

 friends join in proper respects. yrs ff f 



Gil. White. 



Returning on December 15th, IGth, by way of 

 Findon and Chilgrove, where his connection Mr. 

 Woods lived, he notes in his Journal the exact 



* A china merchant, or ** chinaman," in the Poultry, 

 t Son of Benjamin White. 



