From:
J Johnstone
To:
Joseph Banks
Date:
16 December 1796
Source of text:
L&P/11/14, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
No summary available.
Sending specimens of 'Dillenia indica' in addition to those already sent to Sir Joseph Banks, to be divided with Smith. Poor health since coming to Calcutta, intends to go to coast of Coromandil and possibly on to Cape of Good Hope. His last 12 months work in the drawings sent to Banks from India House. [Francis] Buchanan has found the palm 'Nipa' or 'Nypa' of [Georg Eberhard] Rumphius, a new genus which Roxburgh plans to name after Buchanan.