Letter 1972

Richardson received Sloane’s letter after taking a relative to University College, Oxford. He has sent fossils with Houldesworth. Llwyd informed Richardson of some geological observations. He offers a list of fossils and relays his own geological and ornithological observations. 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]).