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seems to be in its perfect state as you see it, for I never found 

 any winged, or in a different form. 



Mr. Forster mistakes your Cimex morio for a new insect, 

 and calls it Cimex aterrimus. 



On a review of my collection, I find about ten new species 

 of birds, viz. four Motacillce ; one Emberiza ; three Alaadce ; 

 and two Turdi : also several fishes, besides many insects. As 

 I hope to enlarge my collection still farther by the help of my 

 friends at Gibraltar, I shall with the utmost pleasure endea- 

 vour to supply the most illustrious master of the science with 

 every article that is valuable. I 



Mr. White, a bookseller in Fleet Street, London, (who is 

 my brother, and to whose care I beg you to direct your future 

 favours for me,) is desirous of knowing who is the person in 

 Sweden, or elsewhere, that has the disposal of the last editions 

 of your works ; at what prices he may purchase many copies 

 of them ; and what new editions are now begun, or intended 

 soon, either of your own, or any other valuable publications. 

 If the proprietor will please to open a correspondence with 

 him, he may draw on him for the amount of what he pur- 

 chases, and depend upon immediate payment. My brother 

 leals more particularly in the branch of Natural History than 

 any other bookseller, and will probably have a large demand 

 for books of that sort. I beg leave to return my most grate- 

 ful thanks for your generous and instructive communications, 

 and with my most sincere wishes for your health, and a 

 prosperous progress in your most valuable labours, to sub- 

 scribe myself with all due esteem, 



Your obliged disciple, and most obedient servant, 



JOHN WHITE. 



London, January 1, 1773. 



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