Autograph letter, third person, to the President of the Royal Society.

Prime Minister 1846-1852 and 1865-1866 (1792-1878). Two pages, 8vo, good condition. He "requests the President of the Royal Society to obtain the opinion of some of the members of the Society conversant with the Science of Botany, whether it may be advisable, with a View to extend the knowledge of Botany, that a Charter of Incorporation should be granted to the Royal Botanical Society (Regents Park. And Lord John Russell will be much obliged to the President to communicate to him the information when obtained." In fact, it was the Royal Botanic Society whose archive is buried in Westminster City Libraries Archives.