Thomas Pennant manuscript material : 7 items 1791-1794

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Thomas Pennant manuscript material : 7 items 1791-1794

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The New York Public Library. Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle.

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Pennant, Thomas, 1726-1798

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Natural historian, scientist, traveller and Fellow of the Royal Society in London, Pennant was acquainted with all the notable scientists of his time and was a close friend of Sir Joseph Banks. Pennant was a prolific writer and his publications include The British zoology (1766), A tour of Scotland, 1769 (1771), Arctic zoology (1784). Pennant incorporated information about Australian fauna in his books A history of quadrupeds (1781) and the fourth volume of Outlines of the globe (1798). ...