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GB-110/JES/COR/15/66
Title
Sir Thomas Frankland, Thirkleby, [Yorkshire], to Sir James Edward Smith
Letter date
18 Dec 1821
Author(s)
Sir Thomas, 6th baronet Frankland 1750-1831
Number of Pages
2
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GB-110/JES/COR/15/66 from Sir Thomas Frankland, Thirkleby, [Yorkshire], to Sir James Edward Smith (18 December 1821)
Metadata for GB-110/JES/COR/15/66 from Sir Thomas Frankland, Thirkleby, [Yorkshire], to Sir James Edward Smith (18 December 1821) Close
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Item Type:
Document
From:
Frankland, Sir Thomas
Sent from:
Thirkleby, Yorkshire
To:
Smith, Sir James Edward
Summary:
Read [Thomas] Rackett's "Linnean Transactions" paper on red viper ['Observations on a Viper found in Cranborne Chace, Dorsetshire' (1819)] and recalls a memorandum he gave Sir Joseph Banks 30 years ago on how as a boy, five miles from Newbury, [Berkshire], he saw "a small serpent with a red belly" the length of slow worm bite a greyhound, which survived but had an extremely swollen neck in morning. Considered it to be a sort of slow worm and suggested the name 'Coluber chersea', the memorandum will be in Banks' loose notices.
Letter date:
18 Dec 1821
Languages:
English
Prev Ref No:
15.124
Additional Information:
| Note type | Note |
|---|---|
| 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. |
| Related Material | Rackett, T, 'Observations on a Viper found in Cranborne Chace, Dorsetshire', "Transactions of the Linnean Society of London", 1819 12(2), pp.349-350. |
