Specimens of 'Cyperus fuscus' sent to Smith for confirmation, at request of Mr Charlwood; received two from Italy under names of 'C. fuscus' and 'C. rotundus'.
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Specimens of 'Cyperus fuscus' sent to Smith for confirmation, at request of Mr Charlwood; received two from Italy under names of 'C. fuscus' and 'C. rotundus'.
Asks Price to send volumes 3, 5, and 6 of "Linnean Transactions" and Linnean Society charter and laws for [David] Hosack of New York.
Thanks for Smith's answer concerning a mysterious letter from [John Leonard] Knapp, who "draws admirably". Sending specimens of 'Agrostis minima' and 'Schoenus rufus' to [James] Sowerby and Smith. Also encloses a lichen, asks its name. His lameness has been relieved by two months of seabathing.
Founding a Phytographical Society; list of desiderata.
Death of [Richard] Pulteney. Plans to republish Pulteney's ["A general view of the writings of Linnaeus"] possibly using the manuscripts bequeathed to him, and to include a new biographical preface on Pulteney.
Sending pieces of amber and jet collected at Lowestoft, [Suffolk], comments on "serpentine impression" in larger piece of jet.
His medical works. English translations. His brother [Pierre Marie Auguste Broussonet] in the Canary Isles.