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From:
André-Marie Ampère
To:
Gabriel Ride (gendre d'Ampère)
Date:
6 octobre 1827
Source of text:
Correspondance du Grand Ampère (Paris: 1936), p. 698.
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Contributor:
La Correspondance d’André-Marie Ampère
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Sends parcel of plants from [George] Arnott, just returned from excursion to Scotland. Sends copy of his work on Pyrenaean plants; apologises for delay; printed in a hasty manner. The last year so taken up with his legal studies that he has neglected botany, but time spent with Arnott and [William Jackson] Hooker has revived his interest; wrote to Montpellier, [France], to have his herbarium sent over.
Has taken lodgings at 5 Kensington Square, and now needs introductions to friends of the Herschels in the area [letter completed 1827-10-8].
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