OF MY LITERARY LIFE. 
dan. Hanc, {ays the great naturalift, recitavi in focietatis regie 
Upfalienfis, publico confeffu, 1757, a. 17 Februarii, quam college 
et focii omnes avidiffime excipiebant et mirati funt; te quoque eodem 
die membrum prefate focietatis unanimo confenfu elegere omnes, et 
mibi in mandatis dedere hoc tibi fignificandi; probe perfuafi te excep- 
turum hoc eorum officium Lenevol2, ob amorem quem fers in fcientias 
et omnia que ufui publico inferviant. My correfpondence conti- 
nued with this illuftrious perfonage till age and infirmities 
obliged him to defift. He did me the honor of accepting all 
my labors publifhed before the year 1774. He {poke of them 
in terms too favorable for me to repeat. 
About the year 1761 I began my Britifo Zoology, which, 
when completed, confifted of cxxxii plates on imperial paper. 
They were all engraven by Mr. Peter Adazel, now living, and 
of whofe fkill and integrity I had always occafion to fpeak 
well. The painter was Mr. Peter Pallou, an excellent artift, but 
too fond of giving gaudy colours to his fubjects. He painted, for 
my hall, at Downing, feveral pictures of birds and animals, at- 
tended with fuitable landfcapes. Four were intended to re- 
prefent the climates. The frigid zone, and an Eurcpean ‘fcene 
of a farm-yard, are particularly well done; all have their merit, 
but occafion me to lament his conviviality, which affected his 
circumftances and abridged his days. 
Tue worthy and ingenious George Edwards, that admirable 
ornithologift, at firft conceived a little jealoufy on my attempt: 
but it very foon fubfided. We became very intimate, and he 
continued to his dying day ready and earneft to promote all my 
labors. He prefented me, as a proof of his friendthip, with 
numbers of the original drawings from which his etchings had 
B 2 been 
Forrio Epirion 
OF THE Baitise 
ZOOLOGY, 1761. 
