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Collection of manuscript copies, in an unknown hand, of letters written in English and Latin, between John White and Linnaeus, 1771-1774.

BIB_ID
120309
Accession number
MA 3324
Creator
White, John, 1727-1780.
Display Date
1771-1774.
Credit line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cremin, 1975.
Description
1 v. (11 items), bound ; 33.2 cm
Notes
John White, brother of naturalist Gilbert White of Selborne, was a military chaplain at Gibraltar for sixteen years from 1756 to 1772.
The first letter in the collection, from John White to Linnaeus, is the only one written from Gibraltar; his second letter is written from London and the remaining four letters are written from Blackburn where he took up the position of Vicar on his return from Gibraltar; Linnaeus' letters to White are all written from Uppsala, Sweden.
With the bookplate of W.H. Mullens.
Provenance
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cremin in 1975.
Summary
Being a collection of eleven letters between John White and Linnaeus; six letters are from John White to Linnaeus, three in English and three in Latin; 4 letters from Linnaeus to John White written in Latin and one letter from John White to his brother Gilbert White in English; concerning specimens of insects, birds, amphibia and fish that John White discovered during his time on Gibraltar.