| Description | Secretary's In letters: From James HALL, Rensselaer Institute, Troy, New York, USA, addressed to John Lindley, 25 May 1834. Re: Has heard that Lindley is about to publish a work on the Fossil Flora of Great Britain and wishes to know more about it; keen to set up a formal exchange of plant fossils with a botanist as he wishes to compare them with specimens he has collected from the Pennsylvanian coal mines; also has animal fossils he is willing to exchange. |