From:
Edward Pigott
To:
Henry Charles Englefield
Date:
5 December 1784
Source of text:
L&P/8/116, Royal Society
Summary:
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Contributor:
Royal Society
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Congratulates Smith on safe arrival of Linnaean collections; warns against spending too much time studying it. Death of [William] Younge's father. Growth of the [Edinburgh] Natural History Society, though number of naturalists not considerable; Mr Alexander the principle botanist. Death of Dr Lubbock a "blow" to the Brounonians; medical lectures.