Autograph letter signed : Downing in Flintshire, to an unidentified recipient, [docketed 1756 Jan. 27].

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Autograph letter signed : Downing in Flintshire, to an unidentified recipient, [docketed 1756 Jan. 27].

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270872096

Hoping he has received his catalog of "above 100 curious fossils and minerals," saying that the box of specimens will follow, and that he is dedicating himself exclusively to minerals and fossils, no longer to shells and sea plants.

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Pierpont Morgan Library.

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Fletcher, H. George.

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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). ...