| Description | Appreciates offer of Buchan's son to present to him natural history curiosities brought back from Davis Strait, but suggests it would be better to deposit them in the museum of the universities or the 'new surgeon's hall' [now Aberdeen Medico-Chirurgical Society]; is sending MSS desired for compilation of new collection of ballads; books sent on approval returned, including Chapel Royal prayerbook and Breviary [A. Boord, 'Breviary of Health' (1546)]. |