Discusses inclusion of Miss Currer's [John] Ray's letters in ["A selection of the correspondence of Linnaeus" (1821)].

Offers Smith loan of correspondence of [Emanuel Mendez] da Costa [(1717-1791), naturalist].

Options for publication. Shall obtain Miss Currer's correspondence collection for Smith's consultation.

Thanks for brace of pheasants. Pleased to hear Smith's complaint has ceased but recommends continued temperance in his diet and to take 30 drops of laudanum a day for another year. No cause for concern in pulsation of artery in retina.

Thanks for the foregoing.

Sends 100 kinds of seeds; list of desiderata.

Pleased to see Macleay's handwriting "after so long an interval". Concerned to hear of the death of [Olof] Swartz, one of his "most constant correspondents", with death of [Carlo Antonio] Bellardi leaves 4 FMLS vacancies; nominates [Augustin] de Candolle and [José Antonio] Pavon, in spite of the latter's financial situation, Lamarck, and [Franz Karl] Mertens. Considered [Kurt] Sprengel. [Georg] Meyer dedicated his "pompous" "Flora Essequeboensis" to the Linnean Society and is ambitious of joining, but must not be chosen for FMLS yet.