| Administrative History | John Hope (1725–1786), physician and botanist |
| Description | Letter from John Hope to David Skene in which he states that the approach of winter turns his attention from botany to the effects of medicines on the human body; he refers to the Dukes of Argyle and Atholl as 'lovers 'of exotic trees'; he refers to the botanical interests of Baron Maule, Mr. Fletcher of Salton, Lord Loudoun and James Nasmyth; he refers to a course in botany given by him 'for some young men of fortune'; he has procured copies of 'Hortus medicus...' by Sutherland for David Skene; a list of forty plants sent by Mr Walker to Linnaeus were not described by him in the Species Plantarum; he refers to pulmonaria maritima, the asplenium marinum, the salicornia, the bromus squarrosus; he describes Linnaeus' method for preparing a hortus siccus (pressed plant collection); he will send him the catalogue of the plants they have collected this season; he refers to J.A. Scopoli's 'Flora Carniolica' and J.F. Gronovius' 'Flora Virginica...', 16 October 1763. |