Daines Barrington was an English lawyer, antiquarian, and naturalist. He was born in 1727 and died in 1800. He wrote many papers for the Royal Society and the Society of Antiquaries; published some separate works, and was a correspondent of White of Selborne, who addressed to him a number of the letters in The Natural History of Selborne. Research Daines Barrington
 
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