From:
Hugh Davies
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
15 Jan 1793
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/21/95, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:
Delighted by Smith's employment at Windsor; hears that the Queen [Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1744-1818)] wants to set up a botanic garden and he has been approached to send plants from Welsh mountains. Sending plant specimens for Linnean Society, will send lichens in next post. Hopes to send animal drawings via a friend. Has not seen a figure of the 'Pycnogonum'; Herbert's bad figure of the 'Cancer' [crab].
Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London