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Autograph letter signed : [place not specified], to an unidentified correspondent, 1772 "Monday".

BIB_ID
128858
Accession number
MA 8887
Creator
Barrington, Daines, 1727-1800.
Display Date
1772 "Monday".
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 22 x 18.1 cm
Notes
Damaged with some loss of text.
Another hand has filled out one of the abbreviations in the text.
Summary
Thanking him for sending a fossil, though confessing that "I am shamefully ignorant in what relates to fossils" and "I shall consult the learned in these matters before I shew it to the R[oyal] Society"; thanking him also for his observations about sightings of swallows and martins in December; promising to send him what Barrington has written about the migration patterns of swallows when it appears in the Philosophical Transactions for 1772; commenting on the torpidity of flies in winter; asking whether the observers are sure about the different species, regarding "the Swallow at Poole & the Marten near Christchurch."