Head
Librarian
Cambridge University - Cambridge
17-5-1996
Dear
Sir,
In
1980 I wrote to your Library requesting information for my research into the
distribution of the domestic fowl.
I
received a reply from Mr Lees in answer to my query. It was in regard to the
visit to Easter Island by Roggeveen in 1722 and contained in Hakluyt Society
papers. In an appendix Carl Friederich Behrens spoke of fowls with a likeness
to fowls from the Vierländen.
I
have noted in a paper by Robert Langdon of the Australian National University
in Canberra that his reference is like
those of the Fatherland. Is this a translation and would it be possible to
obtain full quotation from Behrens’ appendix? (I.e. the text in original
language).
There
does seem some confusion about this word. At present I am consulting with Dr
Elio Corti on this and other matters.
A
reply can be forwarded to Dr Corti to his address you find on the envelope.
Thanking
you.
Enclosed
the references of Mr Langdon, as follows:
Andrew
Sharp (ed.), The Journal of Jacob
Roggeveen (Oxford 1970), 95; Bolton Glanvill Corney (ed.), The
Voyage of Captain Don Felipe Gonzales...to Easter Island in 1770-1,
Hakluyt Society, ser.2, no.13 (Cambridge 1908), 134.