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Ref No
GB-110/JES/COR/6/19
Title
Aylmer Bourke Lambert, Salisbury, [Wiltshire], to James Edward Smith, 12 Great Marlborough Street, London
Letter date
21 Dec 1789
Author(s)
Aylmer Bourke Lambert 1761-1842
Number of Pages
4
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GB-110/JES/COR/6/19 from Aylmer Bourke Lambert, Salisbury, [Wiltshire], to James Edward Smith, 12 Great Marlborough Street, London (21 December 1789)
Metadata for GB-110/JES/COR/6/19 from Aylmer Bourke Lambert, Salisbury, [Wiltshire], to James Edward Smith, 12 Great Marlborough Street, London (21 December 1789) Close
Item data
Item Type:
Document
From:
Lambert, Aylmer Bourke
Sent from:
Salisbury, Wiltshire
To:
Smith, Sir James Edward
Sent to location:
London
Summary:
Shortly leaving for Connaught [Connacht, Ireland], hopes to be more successful with his natural history researches than on his last visit. Asks after a "Flora Hibernica" he believes he heard of in London. Extract from unnamed book recently published in Ireland on discovery of elk antlers and skeleton in 1783 on the "sea lands of the Bishop of Dromore". Encloses drawing [not extant] of a "Borer" insect causing damage to West Indies sugar canes as the Hessian fly does in America, sent larvae to [Thomas] Marsham.
Letter date:
21 Dec 1789
Languages:
English
Prev Ref No:
6.32
Additional Information:
| Note type | Note |
|---|---|
| Additional | Smith replied 22 May 1790 |
| Publn Note | Extract on elk antlers and insect appended as a postscript in transcript of letter JES/COR/6/20 in Smith, P (ed.), (1832). "Memoir and correspondence of... Sir James Edward Smith" London: Longman, vol 2, pp.127-128. |
| 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. |
