Item data
Item Type:
Document
From:
Bradbury, John
Sent from:
Mahas Nation, Missouri
To:
Smith, Sir James Edward
Summary:
Refrained from writing to Smith assuming he would hear his news through Liverpool Botanic Garden. Sending 25 specimens of plants to [William] Roscoe. Plans to travel another 1100 miles up the [Missouri], according to General Clark it is "peculiarly interesting". Recommends Smith examine a specimen of a pouched rat sent to Lord Hawley, possibly 'Mus bursorius', comments on the construction of the mouth, which resembles 'Arctomys'. Has found a 'Talpa' not dissimilar to 'Talpa europaea', and many undescribed 'Coluber' and a 'Crotatus'. His most interesting specimen is the 'Dioeica octandria' shrub which has a "much esteemed berry". Hopes to meet Smith on his return to England. In the most recent 200 miles of his journey has found more British 'Carices' than he has ever seen before in America and has now seen c 26 species of 'Carex'.
Letter date:
13 May 1811
Languages:
English
Prev Ref No:
2.129
Additional Information:
| Note type | Note |
|---|
| Additional | Smith replied 14 Dec [1811] |
| Related Material | For Constantine Samuel Rafinesque's introduction of Bradbury to Smith, see JES/COR/8/80. |
| Finding Aids | Dawson, W R, (1934). "Catalogue of the manuscripts in the Library of The Linnean Society - Part I. The Smith papers: The correspondence and miscellaneous papers of Sir James Edward Smith", London: Linnean Society. |
