Discusses inability to vote for the University as he and his brother have taken their names off the Boards; he has votes for Palmerston only.
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Discusses inability to vote for the University as he and his brother have taken their names off the Boards; he has votes for Palmerston only.
Explains serious illness as reason for lack of scientific activity. Asks JSH for a list of required plants and plans to find specimens from Yorkshire. Requests rare orchid specimens from Cambridge region.
Baxter sends a copy of part two of Stirpes Cryptogamae Oxoniensis and also sends a prospectus for forthcoming work by Gerard Edwards Smith on the botany of southern Kent.
Discusses package of seaweed specimens sent by JSH but has not had time to examine them properly, as he is examining cryptogamic specimens from Madeira for Thomas Lowe. Mentions travel plans, including stay in Cambridge.
Discusses his forthcoming curacy at Wisbech and hopes to help JSH and Leonard Jenyns with Cambridgeshire flora and fauna. Has 3 bat specimens for Jenyns. Encloses specimens of Potentilla and Chenopodium hybridum.
Makes arrangements to donate herbarium to the Cambridge Philosophical Society. The herbarium was purchased from Andrew Mathews, a gardener for the Horticultural Society of London, prior to him being sent to South America to collect plants.
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Sends JSH a list of flora from the Charnwood Forest and the area of Glenfield and Grooby Pool in north-west Leicestershire, together with a geological description. He offers to send specimens of these plants if required and asks JSH for Cambridgeshire specimens.
Requests committee for re-election of Palmerston as University MP to let him know whether to not vote at all or give a plumper vote for Palmerston only.
Asks JSH to get a chemist to analyse two different specimens of chalk being used in agriculture with different results.
Letter of introduction for the Prince de Cimitil, and Prince de Casiati, who are spending a few days in Cambridge.
Asks JSH to put him down for a plumper vote for the election of Lord Palmerston as University MP and comments on the intentions of other voters.
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