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Thomas Pennant Esq., from Bychton in Flintshire ...

Latin Text:

THO S : PENNANT de Bychton in Com: FLINT Arm: variis Rerum Naturalium Speciminibus, Metallorum sc. Mineralium Chrystallorum &c hoc Museum benigne locupletavit.

Translation:

Thomas Pennant Esq., from Bychton in Flintshire, kindly enriched the Museum with various natural, metallic, mineral and crystalline specimens.

Related Objects:AN1836 p.13.179 (Horns of the Koodoo)

Location:Only one speciman listed in the 1836 cataloge. Presumed to have been transferred to the Oxford University Museum of Natural History in 1860.

Year:MDCCLVIII (1758);  Page Number:24 (verso)

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