| Reference number | MM/6/58 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Draft letter from Joseph Banks to Jean Nicholas Sebastian Allamand |
| Date | 12 August 1781 |
| Description | Thanks Allamand for the kind attention he has paid to the miserable relics of what was originally a valuable collection of plants "swallowed up by the merciless ocean".
Banks is referring to the speciments which were on board the 'General Barker' which sank off the Dutch coast in 1781. |
| Extent | 2 sides |
| Format | Manuscript |
| Access status | Open |
| Related material | See MM/6/25 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | Name | Dates |
| NA8116 | Banks; Sir; Joseph (1744 - 1820); naturalist | 1744 - 1820 |