Letter 0751

Richardson sends a box of fossils. They are to be picked up at the White Horse Inn in Cripplegate. He discusses a disagreement he had with Dr Woodward, who felt that he did not get enough time with the coal plants before they were sent to Sloane. Richardson notes the names of some of the flowers, which include: ‘Carduns… Jacea… [and] Ficoides Knife’. Richardson was a physician and botanist who traveled widely in England, Wales, and Scotland in search of rare specimens. He corresponded and exchanged plants with many well-known botanists and naturalists (W. P. Courtney, Richardson, Richard (16631741), rev. Peter Davis, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2010 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/23576, accessed 31 May 2011]).