Letter received by Banks from Alexander Duncan, 25 November 1792 (Series 20.20) - No. 0001

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25 Novr. 92 [added to letter]

Sir Joseph Banks Bt.

Dear Sir

Your respecting Letters of the 3d March, and 23d April, with the Book of Plants, in charge of my friend Mr. Browne, all came to hand - On which I lost no time, in endeavouring to trace out the cause, of the mistakes that were committed, in affixing wrong names, to many of the Flowers in the Collection - And I am now satisfied, that they are principally to be be ascribed, to the great incorrectness of the Painter - as is easily seen, from other Chinese Drawings, of the same plants, on a larger scale, where the difference compared with Yours, is amazing - The foregoing has struck me with a fresh idea, that if I could find