| Administrative History | John Hope (1725–1786), physician and botanist |
| Description | Letter from John Hope to David Skene in which he sends specimens of lead ore from Leadhills; he has sent the 'Hortus Kewensis'; he requests a list of the things Skene has discovered in his recent botanical activities; he lists plants he particularly wants to acquire including plantago leoslingii, campanula glomerata, arenaria laricifol:, mentha gentilis; mentha verticillata; melampyrum sylv:, cardamine amara, matricaria chamomilla; scrophularia aquat:, trifolium filiforme, hyperican montan:, hyoseris minima and senecio sarracenicus; he wishes to show James Robertson's journal to Skene, 13 January 1769. |