| Description | Thanks for previous letter and specimens. Seeds of the Alyssum incanum will be sown in the garden of the British Museum. Remarks on various plants: Gentiana filiformis, Esula Portlandica and Erigeron acris, which are frequently found about Woolwich and in the Duke of Portland's park at Bulstrode. He approves and hopes to promote Pulteney's prospects in Salisbury and will mention his concerns to Mrs Montagu when she returns to town. Comments on the three prize medals awarded by the Royal Society to Edward Delaval, [William] Brownrigg and [Henry] Cavendish. Refers to a medical case of a young woman, in the utmost danger from an "hydrops pectoris", who was cured by an opening into the thorax, from which seven pints of water were discharged and this was on the left side only. Adds news of his son, now a student at St Thomas's hospital. Through the mildness of the season Nasturtium Indicum already "vegetating." |