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Received January 15, 1772, 
XVIII. An Account of fome curious Fifhes , 
yro*8 Hudfon’s Bay ; by Mr. John 
Reinhold Forfter, F. R. S. in a Letter 
to Thomas Pennant, Ffq% F. R. S, 
Dear Sir, 
Read Jan. 28, f g ^HE Governor and Committee of the 
1773* Hudfon’s Bay Company prefented 
the Royal Society with a choice collection of (kins 
of quadrupeds, many fine birds, and fome fifh, col- 
lected by their fervants at the feveral ports in Hud- 
fon’s Bay ; the Committee of the Royal Society, for 
examining and defcribing thefe curiofities, did me 
the honour to refer them to me for examination. 
I with the following obfervations on the fifh, which 
I take the liberty to addrefs to you, as a lover of 
Natural Hiftory, and my remarks on the birds and 
quadrupeds, may convey fuch informations concern- 
ing the zoology of North America,, in the ftudy of 
which you have made fuch vaft progrefs ; and fa 
particularize the animals of the ArBic part of that 
vaft continent, that nothing further may prevent 
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your. 
