Thomas Martyn, Pertenhall, [Bedfordshire], to Sir James Edward Smith, at Mr Flatter's, Benet Street, Cambridge, [Cambridgeshire]

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Ref No GB-110/JES/COR/7/21
Title Thomas Martyn, Pertenhall, [Bedfordshire], to Sir James Edward Smith, at Mr Flatter's, Benet Street, Cambridge, [Cambridgeshire]
Letter date 12 Apr 1818
Author(s) Thomas Martyn 1735-1825
Number of Pages 4

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GB-110/JES/COR/7/21 from Thomas Martyn, Pertenhall, [Bedfordshire], to Sir James Edward Smith, at Mr Flatter's, Benet Street, Cambridge, [Cambridgeshire] (12 April 1818)

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Item Type: Document
From: Martyn, Thomas
Sent from: Pertenhall, Bedfordshire
To: Smith, Sir James Edward
Sent to location: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Summary:

Smith's candidature for Botany Professorship at Cambridge University. Outraged by the Tutors opposition to Smith on grounds of his not being a member of the University, gives numerous examples of previous foreign and non-member professors. Glad that Smith is pleased with [George Cornelius] Gorham, details of his botanising. Suffering from vertigo in part due "to the weight of the atmosphere". Flooding from heavy rains.

Letter date: 12 Apr 1818
Languages: English
Prev Ref No: 7.37
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Note typeNote
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.