Talk:Thomas Pennant

To do
Article reads much like what it is, a bit of 1911 text. It needs

1) a better lead

2) yeah, better text, but at least some copy-editing

3) links (text, quotes, refs) to other people who corresponded (we already have Gilbert White, there were certainly others). Thomas Bewick cites Pennant as an authority for species descriptions in his A History of British Birds.

4) citations.  Chiswick Chap (talk) 09:46, 11 April 2013 (UTC)

Pennant decided on a journey to Scotland, a relatively unexplored country and not previously visited by a naturalist.
That's a tad cringy/colonial.  Catfish  Jim  and the soapdish  13:21, 4 June 2023 (UTC)
 * I agree. The paragraph is sourced to page 11 of the following book:
 * The corresponding text in the source appears to be:
 * I had the hardiness to venture on a journey to the remotest part of North Britain, a country almost as little known to its southern brethren as Kamtschatka.
 * North Britain is an outdated name for Scotland, and Kamtschatka is presumably Kamchatka. As our sentence does not clearly reflect the source, and as the source is very old, we should change it. I suggest:
 * Pennant visited Scotland, a country that was little known to people from southern Britain.
 * Verbcatcher (talk) 05:37, 6 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Verbcatcher (talk) 05:37, 6 July 2023 (UTC)