| Description Of Item | From the collection of William Cullen. He thanks Walker for his letter and a box containing folia and pulvis foliorum rhododendrii, a cure he will try for his lameness. He goes into some detail about his case. He also asks Walker to send some botanical specimens as some of his have died. He wants them packed well but not so as to increase the freight charges which are already high due to the war. In return he will send minerals and seeds of Alstromeria Belegrina [the plant named after the correspondent by Linnaeus]. He mentions the inscription on the obelisk to Linné [Linnaeus] and that is could have been to Hope 'if [Hope] had been so great a man as Linné or if he had been a soveriegn'. Addressed to John Walker. In index. |