Letter 3520

Brewer did not receive Sloane’s letter in time to wait on him. He will come to Russell Street soon. He hopes to ‘have samples of all the plants I collected in Wales’ prepared by then. Brewer sent some plant samples to ‘Dr Dil’ (Johann Jacob Dillenius), which has caused a misunderstanding. Dillenius denies the specimens were sent. Some of the plants may have been sent to India House by accident. Brewer requests that Sloane make an inquiry on his behalf to resolve the situation. 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]).