Papers of David Skene: correspondence: Letter from John Hope to David Skene Letter from John Hope to David Skene in which he states that he will propose Skene for the [Edinburgh] Philosophical Society; Lord Findlater and Mr Ross have recommended Skene to Lord Kaims; he asks if Skene would send him a paper to be read to the Society; Dr Leviston got into the College of Physicians although he keeps a shop and practices pharmacy but now there is an express law against allowing any one who kept a shop to join; the College has received a present of the first six volumes of J. Hill's 'The Vegetable System' and mentions Stillingfleet and Hudson in connection with this work; he discusses the need 'to establish the English name ... on the same successful basis as the Linnaean', 5 January 1765 (126) 5 January 1765