Year: 1908
Type: book
Abstract: Thomas Pennant was a naturalist six years younger than Gilbert White.He was born at Downing, in Flintshire, in 1726, and died in 1798, like White, in the house in which he had been born.His love of Natural History made him a traveller at home and abroad.He counted Buffon among his friends.He had written many books before the date of the publication of White's Selborne.Pennant's British Zoology, his History of Quadrupeds and Arctic Zoology had a high reputation.He wrote also a Tour in Wales and a History of London._ 55-a* 9 * This spring produced, September 14, 1781, after a severe hot summer, and a preceding dry spring and winter, nine gallons of water in a minute, which is five hundred and forty in an hour, and twelve thousand nine hundred and sixty, or two hundred and sixteen hogsheads, in twenty-four hours, or one natural day.At this time many of the wells failed, and all the ponds in the vales were dry.+ This soil produces good wheat and clover.
Authors: Gilbert White, Frederick. Marns, Thomas Bewick
Language: English
Subfield: History and Philosophy of Science
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: gold
OpenAlex ID: W4242206178