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GB-110/JES/COR/13/56
Title
Sir James Edward Smith, Norwich, [Norfolk], to Sir Thomas Gery Cullum, Bury St Edmunds, [Suffolk]
Letter date
11 Apr 1817
Author(s)
Sir James Edward Smith 1759-1828
Number of Pages
4
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GB-110/JES/COR/13/56 from Sir James Edward Smith, Norwich, [Norfolk], to Sir Thomas Gery Cullum, Bury St Edmunds, [Suffolk] (11 April 1817)
Metadata for GB-110/JES/COR/13/56 from Sir James Edward Smith, Norwich, [Norfolk], to Sir Thomas Gery Cullum, Bury St Edmunds, [Suffolk] (11 April 1817) Close
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Item Type:
Document
From:
Smith, Sir James Edward
Sent from:
Norwich, Norfolk
To:
Cullum, Sir Thomas Gery
Sent to location:
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
Summary:
Not as ill as he was this time last year. The plant of "lady botanist" [Arabella Rowden], 'Brusenia', should have been 'Brasenia', a genus of Schreber's in "Genera Plantarum" p.372, does not know the plant himself. Cannot find anything on Cullum's herb "scathery" and frustrated by lack of index to [Henry] Lyte's [(1529-1607), botanist] "Herbal", but thinks they may find something at Sir Joseph Banks' in [Thomas] Tusser [(1524-1580)], a favourite book of Banks' ["Five hundred pointes of good Husbandrie" (1580)], and thinks it must be parsley. Holds a great regard for Sir Christopher Pegge [(1765-1822), Oxford professor of anatomy]. Dr and Mrs Ward live too far away for them to call.
Letter date:
11 Apr 1817
Languages:
English
Prev Ref No:
13.104
Additional Information:
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| Related Material | For Cullum's letter of 14 March 1817, to which this is a reply, see JES/COR/13/55. For further letters between Cullum and Smith on 'Brusenia' and "scathery" see JES/COR/13/55 and JES/COR/13/57. Rowden, F A, (1801). "A poetical introduction to the study of botany." London: White. Linnaeus, C, and Schreber, J C D V (ed.), (1789-1791). "Genera plantarum eorumque characteres naturales secundum numerum, figuram, situm et proportionem omnium fructificationis partium. Editio octava post Reichardianam secunda ... curante D. Jo. Christiano Dan. Schreber ..." Francofurti ad Moenum: Sumtu Varrentrappii et Wenneri, 8th ed. Lyte, H, and Dodens, R, (1619). "A new herbal, or historie of plants ... translated ... into English, by Henry Lyte ... Corrected and amended." London: Edward Griffin. Tusser, T, (1580). "Five hundred pointes of good Husbandrie", London: Henri Denham; please note not available from Linnean Society Library. |
