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Sir
By the Ship Good hope the master Peter Larson from London to
Stockholm, I have sent a small box containing a few Birds and inseets
directed as you desire’d to Mt Carl Linné. Stockholm; which I hope
you will receive safe, and wish you may find any thing worthy of your
acceptanee in it.
I was at Oxford in the year 1769 and remember the incident you
mention1 very well, one of the Gentlemen with us told us that a
Foreigner then present was surprized to see a Lady that knew any thing
of plants; the person contended with was the Gardener who was a
great dunce.
There are many Ladies in this Country that are very fond of plants,
one only of my acquaintarice that knows them scientifically which is Lady
Ann Monson. this knowledge I have taken some pains to acquire, &
tho: I have labour’d under many difficultys, not knowing one word
of latin when 1 began to study your Systema Naturse, which hath
em-ploy’d my leasure hours for the last 4 or 5 years, in which time tho
I have not been able to acquire a thorough knowledge of it, I have so
far suceeded as to be able to find out most things, w’11 1 assure you
1 think an ample recompence for all the pains it has cost me.
My Father has one of the best Golections of plants in this country,
but at 73 years old, thought it late to begin to learn a new system
and therefore I had little help from him.
I wish it was as much in my power, as it is in my inclination to
send you a new plant, and shou’d think my self very liighly honour’d
by Your puting my name to it.
My Golection of dry’d birds is pritty num[erous]. my cabinet is not
destitute of shells, Inseets, fish, & Fossils, & if my Brother lives will
inerease fast. I am not so happy as to know Mf Banks & Dt
So-lander, from a freind of theirs this day 1 received a letter to acquaint
me he had been with them & view’d their store & found they have 100
new genera & a 1000 new species of plants, 150 Birds, 200 fish, 50
inseets, & 20 quadrupeds: not the variety of shells & corals that one
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