Record

RefNoMS/709/3
LevelItem
TitleLetter from George Arnott Walker Arnott, Arlary, to Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward, Wellclose Square, London
Date5 March 1836
DescriptionThanks Ward for the packet of plants from Jamaica and New Holland [Australia]. Comments on their quality and gives an extended list of 70 items. He intends to send Ward a parcel including some of [Robert] Wight's plants. No longer sends plants to the 'over-industrious' Germans, who make new species from bad materials. Remarks on botanical matters, including his collection of mosses and news of Wight. Asks Ward to collect Linnean Society Transactions for him.
Extent4p
FormatManuscript
AccessStatusOpen
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA3808Ward; Nathaniel Bagshaw (1791 - 1868)1791 - 1868
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