| Description Of Item | He writes on behalf of Dr John Ellison of Wakefield on how to be enrolled as a member of the College of Physicians of Edinburgh. He also writes that Dr Broussonet has just returned to Montpellier and been made Professor of Botany; that Dr Ballinger [?] is about to leave Gottingen for an appointment as first physician at [_?]; and that Professor Camper may visit Britain again and has just written a book about shoes as a bet. He writes that Joseph de Jussieu, who accompanied Monsieur de la Condamine to South America and recently died in Paris, left some papers to the Medical Society at Paris. In one of these he recommends red bark which should be a distinct species and, coming from a small area, supplies may soon be exhausted. He also reports that a jaw bone was found in a chalk pit at Chatham which resembles that of a hippopotamus and wonders whether that animal was ever an inhabitant here. In index. |