March 18^th 1772.

Dear Sir

your very obliging favor & the drawing reached me this day & were most acceptable. As I hope to have the pleasure of seeing you the latter end of the summer, please not to trouble yrself with sending anything else, till I have the satisfaction of receiving them from y^r own hand. But in the interim let me beg you & every friend to favor me with instructions of what I sh^d attend to. Such Letters may be wrote till April 26^th. I purpose to be at Glasgow abt the 12^th of June.

y^r other Bird with a long under mandible I presume to be the Rhyncops of Linnaeus, the cutwater of Catesby. It has been supposed to be peculiar to America.

I flatter myself that I shall find y^r collection much encreased by means of y^r American correspondents.

My best compliments attend M^r Clarke: let me beg the favor of him to leave the recommendatory Letters with Doctor Ramsay. I imagine I shall not visit any of the western coasts till I meet my friend at Glasgow.¹

You honor the queries much by y^r intention. please to make any use of these you chuse; & may success attend them: I also have requested D^r Ramsay to get some abridged copies printed to be sent as my avant-couriers.

It shall be my care to procure you a set of the Prints of my Tour: also the imperfections of the Zoology. My best compliments attend D^r Hope & every enquiring friend.

I am Dear Sir
y^r most obed^t serv^t

Th. Pennant.

6 ^y

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