My Dear Bobby,

Much obliged for y^r letter, & lest I should forget as I did before, you may take Hunter² or any other book you choose. If you wont be very angry I will send you once more into the plate-closet to hunt out some books, which you may send to me per Van carefully wrapt up. 1^st. any or all of Cullen’s Works, if they do not come to many vols, but at all events his Nosology & Practice of Physick.³ 2^nd y^e 1^st vol 4to of Haller’s Physiologia⁴ wh. you will find in y^e top shelf, 3^rdly any small work you can find of 1 or 2 vol 8^vo on Physiology,⁵ & 4^thly y^e Mss catalogue of Books, in order that I may avoid procuring duplicates of any works, & 5^thly if y^e packet does not look very large send me Linnæi Systema Naturæ⁶ wh. is among y^e books in y^e Morning Room & unbound.

Apropos to Linnæus I wish you would look in y^e English Systema Vegetab:⁷ & copy me out the specific description of Pinus sylvestris.

If the D^r should be at leizure I wish you would skim over the Mss Catalogue & see if there are any other works it would be worth while sending up.

I hope you dont object to schedule of jobs very grievously.

From whom did you hear about the rabbits foot, as your account was the first I heard about it?

Next week I am going to dine with Prof. Haviland⁸ when I shall probably pick up something or other, about Edinborough, wh. I will let you know.

The next time you go home please to let them know that I an alive & well, y^e very same morning I received just such a letter from Susan, & I verily believe that I wrote last in both cases. I shall at all events be giving y^e D^r a practical proof shortly that I am alive by sending for some money. Touching wh. The glass Bill has not been paid, try if you can to find the bill in my chest of drawers & have it done. The man’s name is Johnson or Bery or both, I forget wh.

Good Bye give my love to Doctrss. P.⁹ & tell her she must not have Spark | E Darwin