Alexander Garden sends his letter of 15 March 1755{L1886} once more, by another ship, to reduce the damage done if the first was lost due to negligence, shipwreck or other unfortunate happenings.
From the time Garden wrote this letter, he has received from England a parcel containing almost all Linnaeus’s works: Critica botanica, Characteres plantarum, [Garden means Genera plantarum, unclear which edition, the most recent was Genera plantarum [...] editio quinta], Philosophia botanica, Amoenitates academicae, Systema naturae [unclear which edition, presumably, Systema naturae, 6th edition]. Garden will attack nature around him, armed with these weapons. He has also heard that Species plantarum has been published, a very desired and useful work.