(Warning: Includes disturbing description of grave-robbing and destruction of sacred sites in the midst of conditions of epidemic disease.) Fort Vancouver, Columbia River, A.L.S. 8p. Consists of Townsend sending extensive listing of "specimens" being sent in a trunk. List and description of birds, mammals, and other items he is sending, including Indigenous human remains of Chinook and Klickitat people. Freeman Guide 728.
Prospectus for a work from John Latham, a British physician who retired from practice in 1796 to devote his full energies to the study which he had enjoyed from his youth, ornithology. His History of birds was published in 11 volumes, 1821-28.
