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Thanks for turkey, the "chief decoration of our Christmas dinner". [Robert] Brown engaged on "Hortus Kewensis". Lady Banks is better, and Banks' gout medicine continues to work, although [Samuel] Goodenough refuses to take it.
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Thanks for supply of turkeys. Mr Brown visiting Smith on the subject of 'Tetradynamie', praises Brown for the work he has achieved on it. Would like [Sir William Jackson] Hooker to inform Banks where to obtain the "Keland[?]" book with a view to a new translator. Dr Wright visiting Banks and informs him the garden in Edinburgh will advance very fast with the new gardener.
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Will always receive those friends Smith recommends to him. Would be glad for the "turkey treaty" to begin again. [Sir William Jackson] Hooker has settled his affairs with respect to his ill-fated voyage to Ceylon. [Robert] Brown and [William Townsend] Aiton working on "Hortus Kewensis".
Merits of small turkeys "over more pompous large ones". His roost robbed but only old birds taken.
Smith's candidature for Botany Professorship at Cambridge University. Anxious for Smith's success in campaign as he believes it would raise "recruits to the study of natural history". Thinks Smith will be successful judging by the conduct of the university in the case of the chemistry professor. Has heard nothing from the vice-chancellor regarding [Arthur] Biggs [(1765-1848)] appointment [as Cambridge Botanic Garden curator], fears he is ineffectual in offering advice to "alma mater".
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At a loss on the subject of Hermodactyls, [an ancient Greek medicine], but is of the opinion that the gout medicine is composed of that root and that Dr Wilson of Yoxford, Suffolk, who has a medicine similar in taste and smell to that of the French, uses 'Colchicum'. Doubts whether 'Colchicum autumnale' is the same as that used in the Greek Pharmacopoeia. Asks Smith whether any of [John] Sibthorp's papers have any information on the Hermodactyl of the Greeks.