Papers of David Skene: correspondence: Letter from John Ellis, Gray's Inn, London, to David Skene Letter from John Ellis, Gray's Inn, London, to David Skene in which he refers to activities of Mr Jeans and remarks that he is not in a position to help him in his collection; he has no spare plates of the balani but will get one done as soon as he obtains the copper plate; he discusses barnacles and corallines, some of which he has sent to Skene including an eschara with two celliferous corallines and an eschara or flustra with single cells; he will look over Skene's list once he has finished his arrangement of the fuci; he is looking for a sea pen for the Duchess of Portland but it would need to be put straight into spirits otherwise it would lose its shape; he has shown Mr Jeans the method of demonstrating the animal nature of sponges; he refers to Pallas's forthcoming book; he describes plants he has received from Pensacola, including specimens of the somo or skimmi of Kaempfer which Linnaeus has called Illicium, 14 July 1766. 14 July 1766