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 encloses a letter for his friend, J[ame]s Badenach, who has been working on British submarine vegetables, and asks Skene to deliver it; he has been too busy to do much more work on zoophytes and has found getting the plates done so troublesome that he is disheartened; he has been experimenting with animal and vegetable infusions; Mr Badenoch will tell him of a letter from Lord Bute to Lord Dr Hope in which he states that he and Dr Hill are convinced that the agarici are animals; he suggests that Skene should try an infusion, 23 July 1768. 23 July 1768