Letter 3553

Brewer is going to send a catalogue of plants, some of which are ‘not knowne to grow in these Kingds before’. He started collecting them five or six years ago. Brewer was discouraged by the comments of ‘Dr Del’ (Johann Jacob Dillenius) regarding collecting in Wales. He is also disheartened by the fact that his family cut him out of the entails of ‘3 or 4 considerable estates’. Samuel Brewer (bap. 1669, d. 1743?) was a botanist. He discovered several plant species that were included in the third edition of John Ray’s ‘Synopsis’, which was published in 1724 (John Martin, ‘Brewer, Samuel (bap. 1669, d. 1743?)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/3366, accessed 8 Aug 2014]).