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Sorry to hear of Smith's late illness. Still awaiting further funds for Linnean Society's charter application, which now stands at £276 11s; list of further subscribers. Forwarded parcel for Persoon.
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Smith's paper read at Linnean Society meeting on 7 [October], where he also got additional subscribers to Linnean Society charter, bringing the total to £284 19s, and there is no doubt of the full sum being made. He and [Jonas] Dryander think it necessary for Smith to be in London about 15 November in order to consult about the Rules of the Society. Asks if Smith has any part of Persoon's "long lost paper on fungi". Time for another volume of "Linnean Transactions" to be published.
List of additional subscribers.
Requests two specimens of 'Papilio machaon', as he hears it is common about Norwich.
Thanks for Australian plants and "Flora Britannica", most prizes the 'Carex vera leporina'. Sending seeds of 'Sonchus alpinus', 'Astragalus arenarius', and 'Kitaibelia vitifolia'. Will send recently published part of his edition of "Species plantarum".
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Spent the summer at his living of Cropredy, Oxfordshire, "one of the stillest places imaginable" but complains how all of the country "is in a state of cruel high cultivation, so that Nature's original designations are not to be discovered". Found 'Ulva compressa' on rocks in a rapidly running stream, an occurance never witnessed by him before; informed by [Dawson] Turner that 'Ulva compressa' and 'Ulva intestinalis' are the same plants. Hopes Smith's "Flora [Britannica]" is proceeding; its imperfect appearance "not relished" at Oxford. Did not see [George] Williams at Oxford but did visit the Botanic Garden, which was in very good form, and received 'Crocus officinalis' specimen which agreed with the description and figure in "English Botany". Received an old specimen of [Sir] T[homas] Frankland's 'Bromus secalinus' and now convinced he never saw it before; those sent under its name were 'Bromus mollis'. Presented Smith's gift of a plant to the Queen [Charlotte (1744-1818), wife of George III]. Knows nothing of political agitation or riots in the market town next to Cropredy.
As Smith takes pleasure in "promoting botanical researches" requests his assistance in obtaining best possible edition of Linnaeus' "Species Plantarum" from London. Sends specimens of 'Syena' in fruit, seeds of red-flowered 'Digitalis', and seeds of 'Bigonia crucigera'. He has found 50 new genera near the city, he has named and sends seeds of: 'Conapetalum elliptifolium', 'Stellandria integrifolia', and 'Jeffersonia semparviens'; observations on each. His best "Genera plantarum" is Schreber's of 1791 but is "too minute & particular"; asks if a better edition is available. Asks that he be kept informed of botanical discoveries. Tea plants from China thriving here, they are the true hyson tea.