From:
Erasmus Darwin
To:
unknown
Date:
16 July 1784
Source of text:
L&P/8/102, Royal Society
Summary:
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Contributor:
Royal Society
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Congratulates Smith on acquisition of Linnaean collections; speculates on their worth. Requests copies of works by Hedwig and [Arthur] Broughton. His growing herbarium. Physical Society laid foundation stone of a new Hall. Smith's Society [Edinburgh Natural History Society] is become "by no means inconsiderable" owing to number of respectable members; anticipating seeing Smith in Edinburgh.
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