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[1]
Letter 22 April 1774, Blackburn to Carl Linnaeus
(Text, Manuscript)
Language
Latin
Persons
White, John
, 1727-1780
(author)
Linné, Carl von
, 1707-1778
(addressee)
Origin
Blackburn
, Great Britain, 1774, die 22mo Aprilis.
Physical description
Format:
Non digital + Digital, reformatted digital
Transcription
Viro Illustrissimo Carolo Linnaeo,
Equiti Aurato de Stella Polari &c.
S[alutem] P[lurimam] D[icit] Johannes White.
Aviculas quasdam rariores, Insecta nonnulla Calpensia dubia, nec non & Piscium quorundam Adumbrationes mea manu, rudi admodum atque imperita, delineatas, cum Avibus quoque paucis, communioribus, ex Musaeo Amici mei D[omini] Lever, more suo perpulchro conservatis, Lapidibusque figuris variis notatis, Londinum jampridem misi, ubi eas Navi cuidam impositas esse exaudivi, cui nomen
Charlotta
, Navarchi autem nomen Osterman. Holmiam iste adnavigare paratus fuit, ubi haec omnia (quorum supra catalogus) Mercatoribus ibidem commorantibus, quibus nomina
Dryer & Zelling
, se traditurum promisit. Cista lignea inclusa sunt; animo benigno accipias rogo.
Literas meas diei 28
vi
Februarii Te accepisse & proposita tua de Systematis Naturae Editione nova imprimenda brevi redditurum spero.
Quid de Avibus meis novis, quid de Lepadogastro, quid de Insectis hisce dubiis, quid de Lapidum figuris tam miris existimas, Discipulo tuo humillimo interrogare liceat.
Piscium (quorum en tibi Icones) aliquas forsan esse novos mihi visum est, e.g.
Percam
lineis obliquis caeruleis,
Scombrum
,
Sparum
nucha tumida,
Sparum
, cui nomen apud Hispanos
Cachuco
,
Percam Gigantem
, an Brunnichi?
Lepidopum
cauda fortificata, a Lepidopo Gouani, cui cauda rotundata seu potius subulata, longe differt.
Cancer
quoque macrourus, quem in Pinna muricata habitantem inveni, novus mihi videtur.
Lanium Senegalum
ab Algiria nuper accepi;
Cuculum glandiarium
a Monte Calpe.
Charadrius Alexandrinus
ibidem vulgatissimus.
Sturnum Collarem
D[omini] Scopoli iisdem locis inveni. At revera
Sturnum
esse dubito; nonne potius Fringilla? Seminibus Phalaridis vescitur; vivum diu retinui. Sunt qui Motacillam hanc meam rufescentem, cui cauda maculis albis nigrisque infra ad apicem notata est,
Turdum arundinaceum
esse (seu
Junco
Raii) censeant. At rostrum habet minimo emarginatum, sed integerrimum; praeterea et forma et Vita moresque Motacillam indicant. Ad Hispaniam venit quotannis tempore vernali.
Tenebrio collaris
, quem Africanum tu scribis, mihi missus est nuperrime a Monte Calpensi.
Ichneumon
quoque bicolorus ab eodem loco venit, cui thorax est bispinosus, antennae ferrugineae, medio albidae.
Myrmeleonis
quiescentis Alas non solum
deflexas
esse observavi, sed etiam utrinque
involutas
, totum abdomen tubulo quasi cylindrico amplectentes. Myrmeleones (i.e. perfecta Imago) Diptera minora praedantur.
Valeas, Vir celeberrime, faveasque
Cultori tuo amicissimo
J[ohanni] White.
Blackburn 1774. Die 22
mo
Aprilis.
Myrmeleon formicarium
Calpense nec maculam habet Alarum marginalem albam, ut in Syst[emate] Nat[urae] & Schaeffero, nec maculas fuscas in limbo, ut apud Reaumurium et Geoffroy; alas vero habet omnino immaculatas.
Ad quodnam piscium Genus pertineat Coryphaenoides meus rupestris adhuc haesito. Pinnarum radios numerare nondum potui. Annon novi sit Generis? Piscatorum retibus nunquam capitur. Omnes quos vidi in
Squali Spinacis
stomacho inveniebantur.
Quid sibi vult Verbum –
Formicalyn
– scilicet nomen triviale quartae speciei Myrmeleonis in Syst[emate] Nat[urae] haud rite intelligo.
Viro illustrissimo Carolo Linnaeo
Equit[i] aurat[o] de Stella Polari
Medic[inae] et Botan[ices] Professori, &c.
Upsaliae
Sueciae
By Amsterdam to Sueden
Notes
Letter from or to Linnaeus
Additional physical form :
White, Gilbert: The Natural history and antiquities of Selborne, in the county of Southampton I-II, ed. T. Bell (London 1877). Vol. 2: VIII P. 85-87
Original location:
a. (Linnean Society, London, XVI, 224-225).
Original location:
b. contemporary copy (The Morgan Library, New York, MA 3324).
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Letter
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Linnaean correspondence
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L4978
(Linnébrev)
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