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From:
G. A. W. Arnott
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
9 April 1831
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8176: 196
Summary:
Acknowledges receipt of package of plant specimens from JSH and explains that he has not had time to add them to the Herbarium.
Has been working on a botany paper for new edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. After this, working with William Jackson Hooker on The Botany of Captain Beechey's Voyage.
Making plans to move to property in Kinrossshire, which is being extended to contain library and plants. Plans to provide JSH with dried willow specimens with names from Botanic Garden Edinburgh.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project