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GB-110/JES/COR/12/67 from Samuel Goodenough, Berners Street, [London], to Sir James Edward Smith (19 January 1821)
Metadata for GB-110/JES/COR/12/67 from Samuel Goodenough, Berners Street, [London], to Sir James Edward Smith (19 January 1821) Close
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Compliments Smith's "Grammar of Botany"; believes Smith, Corrêa, and [Robert] Brown only botanists skilled enough to tackle the subject and and Smith the only one to successfully tackle it. [Francisco Antonio] Zea and General Cortes attended the most recent Linnean dinner, "both rather mean looking men". Attended Sir Humphry Davy's conversazione, Captain [William] Parry [(1790-1855), Arctic explorer] also attended, he is writing his book in the country ["Journal of a Voyage to Discover the Northwest Passage" (1821)]. Attended Royal Society dinner and beginning of Antiquarian Society meeting; there was "a ponderous dull paper upon weights and measures" by Captain Kater. Davy a clearer orator than the Antiquarians' president, Lord Aberdeen [George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen (1784-1860)], whose election Goodenough thinks was an error of judgement.
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| Related Material | Smith, J E, (1821). "A grammar of botany, illustrative of artificial, as well as natural, classification, with an explanation of Jussieu's system." London: Longman. Parry, W E, (1821). "Journal of a Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific; performed in the years 1819-20, in His Majesty's Ships Hecla and Griper, under the orders of William Edward Parry With an appendix, containing the scientific and other observations Published by authority of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty [With plates, including maps]" London : John Murray; please note not available in Linnean Society Library but available in British Library. |
