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421:. A year after Dolly Pentreath died in 1777, Barrington received a letter, written in Cornish and accompanied by an English translation, from a fisherman in Mousehole named William Bodinar stating that he knew of five people who could speak Cornish in that village alone. Barrington also speaks of a John Nancarrow from
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collection of information about weather, the flowering of plants, the singing of birds and other annual changes that was also used by
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Selbourne. Very few of his log books are extant but Barrington has been considered as a pioneer of the study of
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Barrington, D. (1773). "Experiments and
Observations on the Singing of Birds, by the Hon. Daines Barrington, Vice Pres. R. S. In a Letter to Mathew Maty, M. D. Sec. R. S".
454:, London. He was afflicted by paralysis from his legs upward and died after being bedridden for a long time on 14 March 1800; his remains were interred in the vault of the
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