| Description | Thanks for the ham, cheese and hare sent by Pulteney. He approves Pulteney's account of the second volume of Linnæus's Systema Naturae and proposes to have it read at the Royal Society. Speculates on whether Uva Ursi and Betula Nanai grow on the mountains of Scotland and comments on the confusion between the identification of Uva Ursi and Vitis Idaea.
He suggests that Pulteney's prospects would be improved if he took the examination for membership of the College of Physicians. He has been asked by the Trustees of the British Museum to approach Dr Solander with a view to employing him to prepare a catalogue of the collection of the B.M. [British Museum] at a recent meeting of the Royal Society he communicated "an extraordinary case of an almost universal tetanus of four months standing, which gave way to no application either external or internal, which was directed for it, and was at last perfectly cured by electricity, and the girl is now well." |