Letter 2704

Buddle was going to send the grass specimens, but he has to wait for Petiver to return them first. Buddle fears the specimens may have been sent to Tournefort in France for good. He has been to Braintree, sharing notes about grasses with Dale. He also saw Ray, but had no opportunity to confer with him as he was ‘wholly taken up’ with some queries sent by Petiver. The notes shall be left at the Cross-Keys in Grace-Church Street the following Tuesday. He has put them in the same order as Ray did in his synopsis, leaving room for additions, and he expects to have a complete collection of English grasses. Buddle asks Sloane to make sure nothing is missing. He asks Sloane to send him the shells. Buddle was a botanist who collected information ont he flora of England throughout his life, bequeathing them to Sloane upon his death in 1715 (James Britten, Buddle, Adam (bap. 1662, d. 1715), rev. Janet Browne, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/3883, accessed 19 June 2013]).