Forrest, Thomas (1729?-1802)

“Proposal for a better mode of victualling the Navy in warm climates, applicable also to East India ships.” Author’s holograph MS., dated ‘Grafton Street, Fitzroy Chaple (sic) June 1st 1789’. Sent to Henry Dundas. Below this is a holograph note by Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820) dated ‘Soho Square, June 5th, 1789’ returning the ‘Proposal’ of which he approves in principle, but ‘fears that the minute detail...will render the execution of them impracticable on the large scale necessary for the victualling of a Squadron’.

1789

4 ll. folio. 39 x 25 cm. Unbound.

Purchased Stevens September 23-24 1930 (lot 214).

From the papers of Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville. For Thomas Forrest, Navigator, see the Dictionary of National Biography

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).