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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Robert Barclay
Date:
7 April 1860
Source of text:
RI MS
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Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Sends specimens of American locust and Hessian fly from Judge [Richard] Peters [(1743-1828)], president of the Agricultural Society of Philadelphia, and seven papers also from Peters on these subjects.
Invites Smith to view his collection of plants at Bury Hill.
Thanks for Smith's letter on his rare 'Fenillia'. Safely received seeds from Van Diemen's Land [Tasmania].