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GB-110/JES/COR/6/73
Title
Aylmer Bourke Lambert, Boyton House, [Wiltshire], to James Edward Smith
Letter date
12 Oct 1811
Author(s)
Aylmer Bourke Lambert 1761-1842
Number of Pages
4
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GB-110/JES/COR/6/73 from Aylmer Bourke Lambert, Boyton House, [Wiltshire], to James Edward Smith (12 October 1811)
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Item Type:
Document
From:
Lambert, Aylmer Bourke
Sent from:
Boyton, Wiltshire
To:
Smith, Sir James Edward
Summary:
Obtained a 'Melaleuca caurina' from the Fonthill Sale [home of William Beckford (1760-1844)]. Has enjoyed the "Lapland Tour" ["Lachesis Lapponica"]. Lists publications recently acquired from Paris including: "Annals du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle"; [Kurt] Sprengel's "Philiosophia Botanica"and "Historia Rei Herbaria"; [Aubert Aubert Du] Petit-Thouars' "Essais Sur La Vegetation"; [Christiaan Hendrik] Persoon's "Synopsis plantarum"; [Andre] Michaux's [(1746-1802)] "Histoiredes arbres forestiers de l'Amerique Septentrionale"; [Tussac's] "Flore des Antilles" containing 'Alstroemeria edulis'; three new numbers of [Alexander von] Humboldt's [from his voyage to South America] containing 'Bonplandia trifoliata' and 'Mikania guaco'.
Letter date:
12 Oct 1811
Languages:
English
Prev Ref No:
6.141
Additional Information:
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| 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 | Linnaeus, C, Smith, J E, and Troilius, C (tr.), (1811). "Lachesis Lapponica, or a Tour in Lapland", London: White & Cochrane. Linnaeus, C, and Sprengel, K P J (ed.), (1809). "Caroli Linnaei Philosophia botanica, in qua explicantur fundamenta botanica cum definitionibus partium, exemplis terminorum, observationibus rariorum, adjectis figuris aeneis." Halae ad Salam: Sumtibus Car. Aug. Kummel, 4th ed. Persoon, C H, (1805-1807). "Synopsis plantarum seu enchiridium botanicum ..." Paris: Cramerum. Michaux, F A, (1810-1811). "Histoiredes arbres forestiers de l'Amerique Septentrionale, consideres principalement sous les rapports de leur emploi dans les artsset de leur introduction dans le commerce." Paris: [privately.]. Humboldt, A v, and Bonpland, A J A, (1806-1823). "Recueil d'observations de zoologie et d'anatomie comparee faites dans l'Ocean Atlantique, dans l'interieur du Nouveau Continent et dans la Mer du Sud pendant les annees 1799-1803. Par Al. de Humboldt...; Monographie des Melastomacees, comprenant... les plantes... recueillies... au Mexique... Cuba... Caracas... Par Al. de Humboldt et... mise en ordre par A. Bonpland. - Rhexies." Paris: Gide. Humboldt, A v et al, (1811-1833). "Nova genera et species plantarum quas in peregrinatione ad plagam Aequinoctialem orbis novi collegerunt... amat. Bonpland et Alex. de Humboldt; ex schedis autographis Amati Bonplandi in ordinem digessit Carl Sigismund Kunth...; Recueil d'observations de zoologie..." Paris: Librairie Grecque-Latine-Allemande; Schoell. |
