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GB-110/JES/COR/10/28
Title
Carl Peter Thunberg, Upsala, [Sweden], to James Edward Smith
Letter date
19 Oct 1790
Author(s)
Carl Peter Thunberg 1743-1828
Number of Pages
2
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GB-110/JES/COR/10/28 from Carl Peter Thunberg, Upsala, [Sweden], to James Edward Smith (19 October 1790)
Metadata for GB-110/JES/COR/10/28 from Carl Peter Thunberg, Upsala, [Sweden], to James Edward Smith (19 October 1790) Close
Item data
Item Type:
Document
From:
Thunberg, Carl Peter
Sent from:
Uppsala, Sweden
To:
Smith, Sir James Edward
Summary:
Thanks for election as FMLS. Sending his paper on genus 'Dillenia' for "Linnean Transactions". Received a specimen of 'Ternstromia', a species of his 'Cleyera'. Awaiting list of Smith's plant requirements, but in meantime enclosing specimes of 'Hovenia' and other grasses. Whilst he was in Africa received specimen of 'Wachendorfia graminifolia', and brought back from Japan nuts of 'Gingko bilboa', but has been unable to obtain flowers from it.
Letter date:
19 Oct 1790
Languages:
Latin
Prev Ref No:
10.47
Additional Information:
| Note type | Note |
|---|---|
| Additional | Smith replied 7 Mar 1791 |
| Related Material | Thunberg, C P, (n.d.). The botanical history of the genus Dillenia with the addition of several nondescript species. Read 7/12/1790. With 3 pen and ink drawings. Thunberg, C P, 'The Botanical History of the Genus Dillenia, with an Addition of several nondescript Species', "Transactions of the Linnean Society of London", 1791 1(1), pp.198-201. |
| 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. |
