| Description | Has received two days ago Pulteney's letter and the Flora Anglica. The Council of the Royal Society has approved Pulteney.'s work but will defer publication in the Transactions as Linnæus is likely to publish more work and so any account of him must be temporary. He has therefore sent the paper to the Gentleman's Magazine. He has just returned from a trip to Portsmouth, the Isle of Wight, Southampton, Bath and the other towns of the South West. Names some of the curious English plants he has seen. [Listed by Pulteney on last page of letter 4].
"The lately discovered Roman ruins at Bath gave me a very sensible pleasure…and if the Duke of Kingston, upon whose estate they were found, would have the munificence to restore them to what they originally were, he would do an important Service to the Public, and introduce thereby more convenient as well as more elegant baths than the gothic and barbarous ones at present in that famous city."
Postscript: He has enclosed a specimen of Ceterach and of the small Lagopus. |