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Ref No
GB-110/JES/COR/14/2
Title
Edmund Davall, Pontarlier, Franche Comté, [France], to James Edward Smith, 12 Great Marlborough Street, London
Letter date
1 Feb 1789
Author(s)
Edmund Davall 1763-1798
Number of Pages
4
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GB-110/JES/COR/14/2 from Edmund Davall, Pontarlier, Franche Comté, [France], to James Edward Smith, 12 Great Marlborough Street, London (1 February 1789)
Metadata for GB-110/JES/COR/14/2 from Edmund Davall, Pontarlier, Franche Comté, [France], to James Edward Smith, 12 Great Marlborough Street, London (1 February 1789) Close
Item data
Item Type:
Document
From:
Davall, Edmund
Sent from:
Pontarlier, Franche Comté, France
To:
Smith, Sir James Edward
Sent to location:
London
Summary:
His trip to Paris: Broussonet took him to the Académie des Sciences in Paris and has enabled correspondence with Montpellier, [France]. [Jean Louis Antoine] Reynier [(1762-1824), botanist] meddling with politics and may end up in the Bastille; he is an observer of "considerable perspicacity" having determined 'Sonchus canadensis' without the the knowledge Smith had communicated. Purchased [Johan Daniel] Leers' ["Flora Herbornensis"] but plates are bad impressions.
Letter date:
1 Feb 1789
Languages:
English
Prev Ref No:
14.1
Additional Information:
| Note type | Note |
|---|---|
| Related Material | For Smith's reply of 16 February 1789, see JES/COR/14/3. Leers, J D, (1775). "Flora Herbornensis exhibens plantas circa Herbornam Nassoviorum crescentes... cum descriptionibus rariorum in primis graminum..." Herborna Nassoviorum: [privately]. |
| 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. |
| Additional | Smith replied 16 [Feb 1789] |
