Nicholas Aylward Vigors to Faraday   7 July 18281

Bruton St | July 7. 1828.

My dear Sir,

I am not acquainted with any naturalist of the name of Fyshe. We have a member of that name, or rather of that of Fish 2, belonging to our Society, but natural history is not his element.

We have received the great Tortoise from Capt Brant3, and returned thanks for it in due form. It is a noble animal. Vide the Literary Gazette of last Saturday4.

I leave town this evening for about six weeks, having waited till this day for the purpose of being introduced formally to the Institution.

Yours very faithfully | N:A: Vigors

Mich Faraday Esq | &c &c &c

1
Nicholas Aylward Vigors (1785-1840, DNB). Secretary of the Zoological Society.
2
William Croft Fish a member of the Zoological Society from 1826 to 1842. Information from R. Fish, Librarian of the Zoological Society.
3
See note 2, letter 345.
4
“Sights of London”, Lit.Gaz., 5 July 1828, p.428.

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