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GB-110/JES/COR/14/91
Title
Note relating to Haller's herbarium, library etc.
Letter date
[May 1794]
Author(s)
Edmund Davall 1763-1798
Number of Pages
4
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GB-110/JES/COR/14/91 from Note relating to Haller's herbarium, library etc. (May 1794)
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Item Type:
Document
From:
Davall, Edmund
Summary:
Transcription of part of letter from [Jacob] Wyttenbach relating his knowledge of sale of Haller's collections and a fireworks display held in Berne the same year costing as much as the collections were sold for, including anecdotes on dispersal of specimens, the younger Haller and Wyttenbach's abandoned proposal to publish new edition of [Albrecht von] Haller's "Historia stirpium indigenarum".
Letter date:
[May 1794]
Languages:
French
Prev Ref No:
14.229
Additional Information:
| Note type | Note |
|---|---|
| Related Material | For Davall's letter of 12 May 1794 informing Smith of dispatch of this sheet, see JES/COR/14/65. Haller, A v, (1768). "Historia stirpium indigenarum helvetiae inchoata. Tomus primus (-tertia) ... Berniae: Sumptibus Societatis Typographicae. Haller, A v, (1795). "Icones plantarum Helvetiae, ex ipsius historia stirpium Helveticarum denuo recusae... Additis notis editoris (Jac[ob] Sam[uel] Wyttenbach)." Berna: Societas Typographica. |
