Kalm's account of his visit to England : on his way to America in 1748 / translated by Joseph Lucas ; with two maps and several illustrations.

  • Pehr Kalm
Date:
1892
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Credit: Kalm's account of his visit to England : on his way to America in 1748 / translated by Joseph Lucas ; with two maps and several illustrations. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    anklagade, the Scottish lords [Lovat, Kilmarnock and Balmerino] for the late rebellion was examined; St. James’s Park, the Royal Palace, &c., Chelsea Hortum Botanicum, which is one of the principal ones in Europé. Here we found the learned Mr. Miller, who is Horti Prce- fectus of the same. In the evening I was at the house of Dr. Mortimer, secretary of the Royal Society. Here I met the great Ornithologus Mr. Edward, who had published a book on birds in the English language, with matchless copper plates, all in life-like colours, so that it looked as if the bird stood living on the paper. He had now with him several drawings of a number of rare birds from several districts, which he had hit off incomparably well, and intended to publish. * To write with a lead pencil, so that it may not be rubbed out. Mr. Warner told me that if one writes with a lead pencil on clean paper, and, as soon as he has written, dips the paper softly and carefully in clean water, and afterwards leaves it to dry thoroughly, all that has been written with the lead pencil will be very difficult [T. I. p. 36g] to rub out, but sticks to the paper nearly as fast as if it had been written with ink. [Paragraph about Liktornar, omitted.] The 24.th April, 1748. Sjö-Rofvaren Angria. The device of the Sea-rover Angria to make ships sail fast. Captain Shierman, who had lived in the East Indies for a period of fourteen years, had in the same period had the ill luck to be once taken by the notorious sea-rover * George Edwards (c. 1693—1773), F.R.S. 1757, began to publish bis “Natural History of Birds” ia 1743. He presented to the Brit. Mus. the Dutch picture containing a drawing from life of the Dodo, from which most modern representations are taken. [F. W. L.] C 2
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