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.