Item 111 - Letter from Henry Holland

Brook Street - Thanks WW for the 3rd volume of his Platonic Dialogues. HH thinks WW should undertake a similar project for Aristotle: 'The fame of his logic etc, in the scholastic ages obscured the higher merits of his writings, - and hardly until Cuvier's appeal to his books...did we know any thing in this country of his marvellous prowess in Natural History'. Obviously WW knows a great deal about these things as he frequently displays in his works on the Inductive Sciences: 'But I feel desirous to press the suggestion I have ventured to offer; finding from intercourse even with men of science, that they are far less aware than they might to be of those remarkable anticipations of the knowledge of our time'.