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GB-110/JES/COR/6/65
Title
Aylmer Bourke Lambert, London, to James Edward Smith, Norwich, [Norfolk]
Letter date
15 Feb 1809
Author(s)
Aylmer Bourke Lambert 1761-1842
Number of Pages
4
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GB-110/JES/COR/6/65 from Aylmer Bourke Lambert, London, to James Edward Smith, Norwich, [Norfolk] (15 February 1809)
Metadata for GB-110/JES/COR/6/65 from Aylmer Bourke Lambert, London, to James Edward Smith, Norwich, [Norfolk] (15 February 1809) Close
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Item Type:
Document
From:
Lambert, Aylmer Bourke
Sent from:
London
To:
Smith, Sir James Edward
Sent to location:
Norwich, Norfolk
Summary:
Thanks for "fine specimen of ornithology". Has been with Dr [Edward Daniel] Clarke. [George] Jackson has returned from Cambridge with remainder of collection of [Peter Simon] Pallas' plants, a gift from Clarke, including 'Molinia jubata', an "extraordinary plant". Botany "again revived in Soho Square" [home of Sir Joseph Banks]. [Jonas] Dryander working on "the New Holl." and new edition of "Hortus Kewensis". Has a parcel of Indian plants for Smith from [William] Roxburgh. Sir Abraham Hume reports that Amelia Hume is very ill.
Letter date:
15 Feb 1809
Languages:
English
Prev Ref No:
6.125
Additional Information:
| Note type | Note |
|---|---|
| Additional | Smith replied 2 Mar [1809] |
| 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. |
| Related Material | Aiton, W, and Aiton, W T, (1810-1813). "Hortus Kewensis; or, a catalogue of the plants cultivated in the Royal Botanic Garden at Kew. By the late William Aiton. The second edition enlarged by William Townsend Aiton." London: Longman et al, 2nd ed. |
