Thomas Hardwicke, Calcutta, [India], to Sir James Edward Smith, Norwich, [Norfolk]

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Ref No GB-110/JES/COR/5/31
Title Thomas Hardwicke, Calcutta, [India], to Sir James Edward Smith, Norwich, [Norfolk]
Letter date 8 Jul 1819
Author(s) Thomas Hardwicke 1755-1835
Number of Pages 4

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GB-110/JES/COR/5/31 from Thomas Hardwicke, Calcutta, [India], to Sir James Edward Smith, Norwich, [Norfolk] (8 July 1819)

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Item Type: Document
From: Hardwicke, Thomas
Sent from: Calcutta, India
To: Smith, Sir James Edward
Sent to location: Norwich, Norfolk
Summary:

Received Smith's letter of 16 September, pleased he is "assisting the cause of Botany in Liverpool" [establishment of botanic garden] and hopes to see some of [Nathaniel] Wallich's Nepalese plants there. Wallich "works like a horse" dispatching plants from Calcutta Botanic Garden around the world. Hopes to return to England in 1821. His studies have focused on zoology rather than botany, receiving specimens from Nepal through Wallich's intercourse, the country is rich in 'Phasianus'. Has a "fine Alligator's head for the Society", 'Crocodilus' of [George] Shaw, and a 'Gangeticus' [gharial], figures in Shaw ["General Zoology"?] are "wretched". Pleased Smith has grown a 'Rhododendron' from the seeds he sent, would like the credit of introducing the first Indian species to England, "they do not thrive in the moist air of Bengal". Has requested latest volumes of "Linnean Transactions" and "Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society" from [William George] Maton.

Letter date: 8 Jul 1819
Languages: English
Prev Ref No: 5.57
Additional Information:
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Related MaterialShaw, G, (1800-1826). "General zoology or systematic natural history, by G. Shaw (and afterwards James Francis Stephens). With plates ... engraved ... by Mr. Heath (and afterwards Mrs. Griffith)." London: Kearsley, 14 vols.
Finding AidsDawson, 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.