| Description | Has received Pulteney's last letter by the penny post. He has paid a "sleeveless" [pointless] errand to enquire after the health of General Pulteney, but he had already left for Bath. Suggests Pulteney might visit him there. Dr Garthshore will forward a copy of the Philosophical Transactions. He has dined with Dr [Robert] Ramsay of Edinburgh, who has gathered rare plants including Betula nana, Rubus Arcticus and Uva ursina, and observed many uncommon birds in the Highlands. Dr [John] Walker of Moffat is in London; he has collected a vast number of plants in the Highlands and Islands, several of which are "non descript" and thought not to grow in Great Britain. J.W. intends to study the dried plants in the British Museum and compare them with his own collection; he intends to publish a Flora Scotica. J.W. has bought from Dr [John] Hope a print of Rheum palmatum in flower, "which has been executed with more elegance than botanic justice." Hopes that Mr [Georg] Ehret will draw this plant if it flowers next year in the British Museum garden. A plate will then be engraved from it for the Phil. Trans. wishes Pulteney the best of health and curable diseases for his patients - "summam salutem et aegrotis vestris morbos sanabiles." |