44 LETTERS TO HIS BROTHER 



N.B. Tiphys was pilot to the Argonautic expedition ; and 

 a type of Columbus. 



All friends join in respects yours affect. 



GIL. WHITE. 



Sure your Fauna should sell outright for £100 clear of all 

 deductions. Mr. Pennant gets that sum for his new edition 

 of ' Brit. Zool. ; ' and your work will contain much more new, 

 original information. I want to see you the first of faunists. 

 With regard to anecdote and real nat. hist, the less you borrow 

 from books the better ; you have a large fund of your own. 

 Benj. will get very largely by Mr. P.'s Scotch tour. 



LETTER XX. 



Selborne, Oct. 4, 1775. 

 Dear Brother, 

 From the hurry arising from a full house while the Lyndon 

 family were with me ; and by means of Mr. Thos. Mulso, who 

 came as soon as they were gone to Fyfield, I find that your 

 letter has lain unanswered for three weeks. It is proper 

 therefore to sit down now I am alone, and answer your last 

 before my friends return from Fyfield. 



Mr. Barker sets out as this morning for Northamptonshire, 

 and takes his leave of Hants at my Bro. Harry's house ; but 

 the ladies and Sam return hither on Friday; and Harry accom- 

 panies them and stays with me a few days. How long my 

 sister &c. are to stay I cannot yet say. Your Fauna, to which 

 I think myself at least a foster-father, is become, I hear with 

 pleasure, a fine thriving child. I could be glad to examine 

 its features, and to dandle it, and remark how it shoots up 

 towards its rjXiKia ; but the old difficulty of my church stands 

 still in my way, and is like to prove as great a remora as usual : 

 I am making enquiries concerning some assistance, but can 

 hear of nothing yet to my satisfaction. Mr. Grimm has not 



