Item data
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:
Had hoped to send Cullum his "[English] Flora" for his patronage but held up by 'Rosa' and 'Rubus', has doubled the number of species of latter. Has now completed more than half his work on "Flora Graeca". Yet to receive [Augustin Pyramus] de Candolle's new work ["Prodromus systematis naturalis..."] but observed many errors in characters and references his "[Regni vegetabilis] Systema [naturale]" and his adoption of names according to date means he cannot be an authority.
Cullum correct about the two species of 'Sirex'. Received seeds and roots from [John] Denson [(fl 1820s-1870s, curator of Bury botanic garden], and intends to send Cullum willow cuttings from Mrs Crowe's. Dr [Martin] Davy of Caius [College, Cambridge], [William] Roscoe, the Duke of Sussex [Prince Augustus Frederick (1773-1843)], and [John Dunn] Hunter [(c 1798-1827)], an American brought up "among the wild Indians", whose narrative he recommends ["Memoirs of a captivity among the Indians of North America..." (1823)], all at Holkham, [Norfolk, home of Thomas William Coke] during his last visit.
Letter date:
29 Feb 1824
Languages:
English
Prev Ref No:
13.151
Additional Information:
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| Related Material | For Cullum's letter of 26 February 1824, to which this is a reply, see JES/COR/13/80.
Smith, J E, Hooker, W J, and Berkeley, M, (1824-1828). "The English flora", London: Longman.
Sibthorp, J, (1806-1837). "Flora Graeca", London: Taylor.
Candolle, A P d, (1824-1873). "Prodromus systematis naturalis regni vegetabilis, ... Auctore Aug. Pyramo de Candolle, (... Editore [pars VIII-XVII] et pro parte auctore Alphonse [Louis Pierre Pyramus] de Candolle, ...)." Parisii; Fortin; Masson: Treuttel.
Candolle, A P d, (1818-1821). "Regni vegetabilis systema naturale ... Auctore Aug. Pyramo de Candolle." Parisii: Treuttel.
Hunter, J D, (1823). "Memoirs of a captivity among the Indians of North America, from childhood to the age of nineteen : with anecdotes descriptive of their manners and customs to which is added some account of the soil, climate and vegetable productions of the territory westward of the Mississippi" London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green; please note not available from Linnean Society Library but available in British Library. |
