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GB-110/JES/COR/10/11
Title
Henry Fox Talbot, 31 Sackville Street, London, to Sir James Edward Smith, Norwich, [Norfolk]
Letter date
27 Aug 1826
Author(s)
William Henry Fox Talbot 1800-1877
Number of Pages
3
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GB-110/JES/COR/10/11 from Henry Fox Talbot, 31 Sackville Street, London, to Sir James Edward Smith, Norwich, [Norfolk] (27 August 1826)
Metadata for GB-110/JES/COR/10/11 from Henry Fox Talbot, 31 Sackville Street, London, to Sir James Edward Smith, Norwich, [Norfolk] (27 August 1826) Close
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Item Type:
Document
From:
Talbot, William Henry Fox
Sent from:
London
To:
Smith, Sir James Edward
Sent to location:
Norwich, Norfolk
Summary:
Sending a copy of [Antonio] Bertoloni's "Amoenitates Italicae". Compared the collection of plants he gathered from Corfu and other islands with Bertoloni's herbarium, the best in Italy, but still has doubts which he can only clear up by consulting [John] Sibthorp's original specimens. [David] Don [(1799-1841), botanist] wants him to communicate his Ionian flora observations to Linnean Society but does not think them interesting enough. The Ionian 'Umbelliferae' are "numerous & extraordinary" and seem little known, could not even apply genera to many of them, although a copy of "Flora Graeca" in the Grand Duke's Library in Florence was helpful.
Letter date:
27 Aug 1826
Languages:
English
Prev Ref No:
10.23
Additional Information:
| Note type | Note |
|---|---|
| Additional | Smith replied 29 Aug [1826], online transcription available at http://www.foxtalbot.dmu.ac.uk/letters/transcriptName.php?bcode=Smit-JE&pageNumber=7&pageTotal=9&referringPage=0. |
| 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. |
| Publn Note | Smith, P (ed.), (1832). "Memoir and correspondence of... Sir James Edward Smith" London: Longman, vol 2, pp.297-298; this transcript is largely Talbot's letter of 10 Apr 1826, JES/COR/10/12, but the postscript on 'Umbelliferae' is taken from the last paragraph of this letter. Online transcription of this letter and others between Talbot and Smith, including Smith's replies, available at http://www.foxtalbot.dmu.ac.uk/letters/name.php?bcode=Smit-JE&pageNo=0. |
| Related Material | Bertoloni, A, (1819). "Amoenitates Italicae sistentes opuscula ad rem herbariam et zoologiam Italiae spectantia." Bononia: Typis Annesii de Nobilibus. Sibthorp, J, (1806-1837). "Flora Graeca", London: Taylor. Talbot's 'Flora of Corfu' MSS is in Bentham, G, (1832-1836). "Labiatarum, genera et species ..." London: Ridgway, p.742. |
