Their university's "Museum anatomicum" has finally come off the press; sending copies to Smith, British Museum, and Sir Joseph Banks. Requests copies of all Smith's works and copies of first two volumes of "Linnean Transactions", which he hopes will settle the exchange between them.

Has recommended Smith to Schuurmans Steckhoven, whose grandfather was director of Vienna Botanic Gardens, who is seeking a London correspondent to exchange plants with. Requests English version of "Icones pictae" for a friend in Amsterdam who does not understand the Latin.