Sends his Inaugural Dissertation as requested when they saw each other in Norwich. Receives much satisfation from the specimens Smith gifted him. Sends specimen of 'Mentha gratissima' Ehrhart, believes it may be 'Mentha sylvestris' even though [Georg Franz] Hoffmann received it into his "Flora Germanicus". Publications: Smith's "Flora Britannica"; [Olof] Swartz' "Dispositio muscorum", notes that Swartz has adopted Hedwig's method "with some alterations"; and [Erik] Acharius' "Lichen descriptio".

Sends [Friedrich] Stromeyer's dissertation at Stromeyer's request [(1776-1835)], in gratitude for the information he found in Smith's works. Noehden nominates him as a FMLS. Stromeyer hopes to visit England and Smith after touring France and the Pyrenees.

Sent twelve species of Ehrhart and Hoffman's 'Salix'; rarities from the Pyrenees received from [Friedrich] Stromeyer; and a 'Drosera lusitanica' L from Portugal, sent in return for the 'Drosera dichotoma' Smith gave him. Stromeyer focusing his botanic studies on the "geography of vegetables". His own study is "anomalous formations" in vegetables. Thanks for specimens of New Holland [Australian] plants, requests more, lists the plants he has already received. News of botanists: [Christiaan Hendrik] Persoon is in Paris and [Heinrich Adolph] Schrader made professor extraordinary at Göttingen University in addition to director of the Botanic Garden after the regency became displeased with Hoffmann's management.