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Laments death of Bishop of Carlisle [Samuel Goodenough]; [John] Latham and himself now the only surviving original members of the Linnean Society. Has not come to London this year as suffering from severe rheumatism in the same eye that suffered from erysipelas twenty-five years ago; asks Cullum to consult Mr Alexander for him. Recently received from Kent the true Swiss 'Ophrys arachnites' figured in [Albrecht von] Haller [(1708-1777), Swiss botanist].

Thanks for Christy's letter, spent the last three weeks in Suffolk. Christy's plant is the real 'Cistus surrejanus', refers him to "English Flora" vol 3, p25, will quote Christy's new observations in corrections and additions of the fourth volume. 'Dianthus barbatus' cannot be supposed wild in Britain.