50 OVE DAHL. BISKOP GUNNERUS. [190O 



lige Cassa fandt udveie til, naar forslaget kom fra saadan een 

 Haand som D. H. 



For at foretage noget i Vinter til een Beskrivelse over 

 Nordmøre, da beder ieg ydmygst, om D. H. befinder det for godt, 

 at tilskrive Præsterne paa Nordmøre det de behagede med aller- 

 første at tilstille mig hvad Antiquiteter, Monumenter, Gamle Breve, 

 Rone Bogstaver eller Skrifter om Folkets Nærings-Brug, Agerdørk- 

 nings maade, samt Sæder, med meere som D. H. bedere hved hvad 

 oplysning ieg kan behøve, over hvert Præstegield, ti Sommeren vil 

 gaa bort med Reiser og Carters forferdigelse. 



Ønsker nu at dette mit giorde Forslag maate finde D. H.s 

 Bifald, da vil samme forøge min Løst (efter min liden indsigt) at 

 forfahre med arbeidet saa vidt den naadige Gud vil forunde mig; 

 Kræfter. 



Da ieg i Øvrig etc. etc. C. J. Richelieu. 



707. 1768 26. Novbr. fra Thv. Penn ant 1 ), Donning in Flintshire,. 



England. (.VS.) 

 To The high Revd. Doctor Gunner Bishop of Drontheim.- 

 My Lord. It is no small happiness I have in view, when I flatter 

 myself with enjoying the pleasure of corresponding with a Prelate 

 who so well knows how to mix with the study of his profession, 

 the relative science of natural history. Our employs, my Lord, 

 have been in some degree similar, each of us having devoted our 

 Pen to the illustration of the animale creation of our own country. 

 It was once my happiness to enjoy the correspondence of your 

 country man Mr. Fleischer 2 ), who generously gave me his whole 

 collection of birds: it is my design to do honor to his memory in 

 the publication of such part of them as are not found in my own 

 country; but it is my wish to augment it with such as have been 

 discovered since Mr. Brunnich 3 ) favored the world with his orni- 

 thologia Borealis. It would give me infinite pleasure, if your 



*) Thomas Pennant, 1726 — 1798, fredsdommer, bekjendt engeisk zoologi 

 Hans hovedverker er: British zoology (Lond. 1766 — 76), History of qua- 

 drupeds 1791 og Arctic zoology 1784-87. 



2 ) Se aarsskr. 1888—90 pag. 240 flg. 



3 ) Se aarsskr. 1888- 90 pag. 239. 



