PREFACE. xvii 



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 



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Of many of these works several editions were required, 

 and the superintendence of them added to the demands on 

 him for continual devotion to literary pursuits. Many 

 minor works were also published by him, including nu- 

 merous 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, ft at the multiplicity of my publications, espe- 

 cially 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. 



DAINES BAERINGTON, honourable by birth and respected 

 for his talents, was well suited, by the pursuits to which 

 from choice he had devoted himself, to become the favourite 



