From:
Joseph Banks
To:
Joseph Banks
Date:
May 1794
Source of text:
MM/7/144, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
No summary available.
Transcription of part of letter from [Jacob] Wyttenbach relating his knowledge of sale of Haller's collections and a fireworks display held in Berne the same year costing as much as the collections were sold for, including anecdotes on dispersal of specimens, the younger Haller and Wyttenbach's abandoned proposal to publish new edition of [Albrecht von] Haller's "Historia stirpium indigenarum".