Item data
Item Type:
Document
From:
Wallich, Nathaniel
Sent from:
Calcutta, India
To:
Smith, Sir James Edward
Sent to location:
Norwich, Norfolk
Summary:
Box of 66 roots [listed at end of letter] and chest of 10 live plants from Nepal and north-west frontiers of Bengal [listed at end of letter] dispatched via Captain James Jackson, commanding the Charles Mills. A similar box of roots sent to Revd H H Norris, Hackney, London, by Bishop of Calcutta [Thomas Middleton (1769-1822)]. The Nepalese plants were collected by [Edward] Gardner [(b 1784), resident at Court of Rajah of Nepal at Katmandu]. Observations on each of the live plants, some in Latin.
Growing plants sent: 'Primula prolifera' Wallich; 'Cypripidium venustum' Wall.; 'Cypripidium insigne' Wall.; 'Lilium napalense' Wall.; 'Chrysobaphys roxburghii' Wall. ('Folium petolatum' Rumph. Amb. VI.93 t.41.f.3); 'Saxifraga ligulata' Wall.; 'Epidendrum procax' (Exot.Bot.II.p.73 t.97. Broughtonia?); 'Convallaria oppositifolia' Wall.; 'Acrostichum flagelliferum' Wall. ('Panna-Mara-Masauasa' Rheed. Mal.XII. 39.t.19); 'Paris polyphylla' Buch. (Sir J E Smith in Rees' "New Cyclopedia" in loco).
Letter date:
1 Dec 1818
Languages:
English
Prev Ref No:
10.11
Additional Information:
| Note type | Note |
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| Related Material | Rumpf, G E, and Burman, J, (1755). "Herbarii Amboinensis auctuarium ... cura & studio Joannis Burmanni ... (Index universalis in sex tomos et auctuarium Herbarii Amboinensis ...)." Amstelaedami: Apud Mynardum Uytwerf & S. Schouten.
Smith, J E, (1804-1805). "Exotic botany" London: J. Sowerby.
Rheede tot Draakestein, H A von, (1678). "Hortus Indicus Malabaricus ..." Amstelodami: Joannis van Someren et Joannis van Dyck.
Rees, A (comp.) et al, (1819-1820). "The cyclopædia, or, universal dictionary of arts, sciences, and literature." London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown. |
| 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. |
