Letter received by Banks from Daniel Solander, 10 November1774 (Series 72.177) - No. 0001

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[indecipherable] Club 
Nov. 10 1774

My Dear Sir

I read your Letter concerning the Guns, just now to Greville, he says that he has twice wrote to Warwick about them and therefore supposes they will arrive before the week is at an end.  As soon as they come, they shall be sent down to you.

Walsh is come to town, I have told him our plan about the Electrical Eels; he entered into the Scheme with Spirit, and when he this night heard (at the Royal Society) an account from Mr. Hope in Amsterdam, that his friends had sent him several but that they all died on the passage; Walsh thought that they may but perhaps be come brought over