Papers of David Skene: correspondence: Letter from David Skene to John Hope Letter from David Skene to John Hope in which he approves the project of an itinerant botanist and suggests an itinerary; he does not believe there would be much use of plants by the natives for medicines but may learn how the Highlanders get the bright colours for their tartans; he does not think that the man should be a fossilist as that may divert his attention; he has done little lately save for cornus herbacea, pyrola secunda and saxifraga stollaris; he asks what he has done in the crypt. class and 'does the Man know it?'; a recent letter from Linnaeus states that he has obtained the erica dabodcil from Scotland, he has also made a curious discovery on fungi, 2 April 1767. 2 April 1767