Thomas Jenkinson Woodward, Bungay, [Suffolk], to James Edward Smith, 12 Great Marlborough Street, London

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Ref No GB-110/JES/COR/18/49
Title Thomas Jenkinson Woodward, Bungay, [Suffolk], to James Edward Smith, 12 Great Marlborough Street, London
Letter date 20 Jun 1791
Author(s) Thomas Jenkinson Woodward 1745-1820
Number of Pages 4

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GB-110/JES/COR/18/49 from Thomas Jenkinson Woodward, Bungay, [Suffolk], to James Edward Smith, 12 Great Marlborough Street, London (20 June 1791)

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Item Type: Document
From: Woodward, Thomas Jenkinson
Sent from: Bungay, Suffolk
To: Smith, Sir James Edward
Sent to location: London
Summary:

Relieved that his intended trip to London has been cancelled. Glad his 'Lycoperdon' paper was well received at the Linnean Society; notes on composition and conditions of publication. Impatient to see "Linnean Transactions" vol 1. Pleased with Smith's "Spicilegium botanicum"; hopes the text will soon follow. Observes that "Spicilegium" and "English botany", by sharing same subject of mistaken or ill-figured scarce English plants, interfere with each other; favours "Spicilegium" but hopes "English botany" will not stop. Hopes that reports of [William] Curtis being almost bankrupt and forced to give up his Brompton garden are untrue.
Appreciates Smith's reasons for not engraving 'Lycoperdon coliforme' but maintains that whilst [James] Dickson's figure is very good [James] Sowerby's is also good enough for a subject; asks Smith to compare figure [of 'Lycoperdon coliforme'] in Batsch. [William] Withering wishes to join the Linnean Society. Convinced review of [John] Berkenhout's [(1726-1791), physician and naturalist] "Manual" in the "Analytical Review" was Smith's. On [Edmund] Burke [(1730-1797), politician]: "what must they be who pin their faith on the reveries of a madman"; rumoured his new book is on the British constitution, doubts it will receive the same enthusiasm as his first book. [Robert] Stone [(c 1751-1829), botanist] was disappointed by his trip to London. Has 50 specimens each of 'Carex strigosa' and 'Cinerania alpina' for [James] Dickson, latter gathered on Gogamog hills near Cambridge [for Dickson's "dried plants"].

Letter date: 20 Jun 1791
Languages: English
Prev Ref No: 18.103
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AdditionalSmith replied 2 Jul [1791]
Related MaterialFor Smith's reply of 2 July 1791, see JES/COR/18/50. For draft of Smith's review of Berkenhout's "Manual", see JES/COR/23/35. Woodward, T J, 'An Essay towards an History of the British Stellated Lycoperdons: being an Account of such Species as have been found in the Neighbourhood of Bungay, in Suffolk', "Transactions of the Linnean Society of London", 1794 2(1), pp.32-62. Smith, J E, (1791-1792). "Spicilegium botanicum, Fasc. I & II." London: [privately]. Smith, J E, and Sowerby, J, (1790-1814). "English botany" London. Batsch, A J G C, (1783-1789). "Elenchus fungorum ... (Gattungen und Arten der Schwamme ...)." Hala Magdeburgica: Gebauer. Berkenhout, J, (1789). "Clavis Anglica linguae botanicae, or, a botanical lexicon, in which the terms of botany, particularly those occurring in the works of Linnaeus, and other modern writers, are applied, derived, explained, contrasted, and exemplified ... to which is added, Calendarium Botanicum." London: Cadell, 2nd ed. Dickson, J, (1789-1792). "A Collection of Dried Plants, named on the authority of the Linnaean herbarium, and other original collections." London: Printed for the Author; not available in Linnean Society Library, available in Natural History Museum Library and British Library.