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From:
John Brand
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
[8 Apr] 1794
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/21/17, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Thanks for Smith's advice [on sale of copies of Brand's "Amoenitates Academicae" translation and manuscript of second volume]; he was only offered 13 guineas so intends to offer it in London. Details of the second volume, which includes: essay on hybrid plants; two abridged dissertations of Koebrenter on 'Lychni cuculoalus' and 'Digitalis hybriae'; a complete Herbatio Anglica from Hudson's 1778 edition, details of arrangement. Requests advice on selling remaining copies of first volume. Has a system for mechanically arranging species of complicated genera by the shortest character of a species; believes some of the genera in "Systema Naturae" were arranged by a similar system.

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The Linnean Society of London