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What think you of Gasterost. Saltatrix, as I have ventur'd 

 to call it ? Yet I fear it cannot be positively pronounc'd 

 that species. I would like to have Cuts of all my new 

 Subjects, provided they were well executed. But I observe 

 that all the Artists, who succeed pretty well in Quadrup. 

 & Fishes, & Insects, are still very defective in Birds. Have 

 you & M. de Buffon adjusted matters concerning the 

 Scops ? I have a pretty specimen, but fear the Engravers 

 will murder the delicate pencilling of that Bird. 



I should be happy to have some days' conference with 

 you on the more rare of our Subjects, before I finish my 

 Fauna. I am not so forward as I c d wish for want of 

 having all my Specimens & Materials about me. If you 

 have any Papers or Memorials that you can spare, w ch may 

 contribute to my farther information, please to leave them 

 at my Brother's in Fleet-street. I hope to be at Blackburn 

 the beginning of May. 



I am, D r Sir, with much esteem 

 Your most obed 1 serv 1 



J. WHITE. 



In your list of Animals of Southern Europe w ch you 

 have got drawn, I cannot precisely distinguish w ch of them 

 are mine, but shall be glad if you w d put a mark on those 

 w ch y OU nac j from me.] 



