Mr, Gronovivs. 
Eritisn Zoo- 
LOGY, SECOND 
Epivrion, 1768. 
ODED DINGY. 2) Aa ROAGR WY a Plage 
him all the works I had publifhed fince our feparation; he re- 
ceived them with the candor which only great minds poffefs at 
the fight of the fuccefsful labors of others. On November the 
4th, 1777, I received from him the firft letter of our renewed 
correfpondence, which continued feveral years, to my great in- 
ftruction. He fupprefled nothing that could be of fervice to 
the caufe of literature, nor did he defift, till, overpowered with 
bufinefs, he dropt all epiftolary duties except thofe which were 
official. To this day he convinces me of his friendfhip by con- 
{tant prefents of the productions of his celebrated pen. 
Ar Leyden 1 had the pleafure of making a perfonal acquaint- 
ance with my worthy correfpondent doftor Lawrence Theodore 
Gronovius, defcended from a race celebrated for their immenfe 
erudition; his own labors will remain lafting oe of his be- 
ing an undegenerated fon. 
On Febyuary the 26th, 1767, I was elected Fellow of our 
Royal Society. 
Mr. Benjamin White, bookfeller, propefed to me the republi- 
cation of the Britifh Zoology, which was done in 1768, in two 
volumes, octavo, illuftrated with xvii plates; he payed me 
£.100 for my permiffion, which I immediately vefted in the 
Welfo charity {chool. I may here obferve, that 4. de Murre, 
of Nurenbergh, tranflated the folio edition into German and Latin, 
and publifked it in that fize, with the plates copied and colored 
by the ingenious artifts of that city. 
In the May cf this year I met Sir Jofeph Banks, then Mr. 
Banks, at Revefby Abby, his feat in Lincolnfhire; during my ftay 
I made many obfervations on the zoology of the country, and 
muft acknowlege the various obligations I lie under to that 
gentleman 
