OF SELBORNE. 41 



As to swallows (Hirundines rustica) being found in 

 a torpid state during* the winter in the Isle of Wight, 

 or any part of this country, I never heard any such 

 account worth attending to. But a clergyman, of an 

 inquisitive turn, assures me, that, when he was a great 



by the multitude of plates executed by them for his several works, 

 while it furnishes a list of the principal of his productions, will also 

 afford some idea of the extent and variety of his labours. 



British Zoology, folio ; 132 



British Zoology, octavo or quarto 284 



History of Quadrupeds 54 



Tour in Scotland, the three volumes 134 



Journey to London . . . 23 



Tour in Wales, two volumes 53 



Moses Griffith's Supplemental Plates 10 



Some Account of London, second edition 15 



Indian Zoology 17 



Genera of Birds 16 



Arctic Zoology, two volumes 26 



Systematic Index to de Buffon 1 



Lightfoot's Flora Scotica, two volumes 37 



802 



Of many of these works several editions were required, and the super- 

 intendence of them added to the demands on him for continual devotion 

 to literary pursuits. Many minor works were also published by him, 

 including numerous papers in the Philosophical Transactions. He 

 maintained too an active correspondence both at home and abroad 

 throughout the whole of his life; and numbered among his friends the 

 most distinguished men in the several branches of knowledge which he 

 cultivated. Linnaeus was among his earliest correspondents ; and with 

 Pallas he was in frequent communication. 



" I am often astonished," he says, in his Literary Life of himself, " at 

 the multiplicity of my publications, especially when I reflect on the 

 various duties it has fallen to my lot to discharge, as father of a family, 

 landlord of a small but numerous tenantry, and a not inactive magistrate. 

 I had a great share of health during the literary part of my days. Much 

 of this was owing to the riding exercise of my extensive tours, to my 

 manner of living, and to my temperance. I go to rest at ten ; and rise 

 winter and summer at seven, and shave regularly at the same hour, being 

 a true misopogon. I avoid the meal of excess, a supper ; and my soul 

 rises with vigour to its employs, and (I trust) does not disappoint the 

 end of its Creator." 



Pennant died in 1798, in the seventy-third year of his age ; having 

 survived for more than seven years the literary death which he had 

 anticipated for himself in 1791. -E. T. B. 



