James Edward Smith, Matlock Bath, [Derbyshire], to Thomas Jenkinson Woodward, Bungay, Suffolk

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Ref No GB-110/JES/COR/18/59
Title James Edward Smith, Matlock Bath, [Derbyshire], to Thomas Jenkinson Woodward, Bungay, Suffolk
Letter date 22 Jun 1792
Author(s) Sir James Edward Smith 1759-1828
Number of Pages 4

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GB-110/JES/COR/18/59 from James Edward Smith, Matlock Bath, [Derbyshire], to Thomas Jenkinson Woodward, Bungay, Suffolk (22 June 1792)

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

Thanks for Woodward's letter [of 19 June 1792]. His health bad since April, following various inflammatory attacks on his lungs, for which he has come to Matlock, several relapses but much recovered. Dr [Erasmus] Darwin is here, "a fine old man, full of enthusiasm", who wants to become a FLS, thinks Sir Brooke Boothby [7th baronet, (1744-1824), poet and writer] would, too. Admires Woodward's friend, Mr Favell. His new work is the second part of "Spicilegium botanicum".
Requests specimen of 'Ornithogalum pyrenaicum'. Abundance of bee and fly orchids here and he collected many lichens off the high rocks of Cromford moor, including: 'Lichen omphalodes', 'L. saxatalis', 'L. globiferus', 'L. fragilis', 'L. physodes', 'L. sanguinarius', 'L. ventosus', 'L. tartareus', 'L. calcareus', 'L. polyphyllus', and 'Jungermannia tridentata' but not in flower. Studied Hoffmann's works little but they seem very good, he is Murray's successor at Gottingen. Comparison of his "Flora Lapponica" with the original will show he corrected the citations very much. He has been lonely in Matlock.

Letter date: 22 Jun 1792
Languages: English
Prev Ref No: 18.123
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Related MaterialFor Woodward's letter of 19 June 1792, to which this is a reply, see JES/COR/18/58. For Woodward's reply of 14 July 1792, see JES/COR/18/60. Smith, J E, (1791-1792). "Spicilegium botanicum, Fasc. I & II." London: [privately]. Linnaeus, C, and Smith, J E, (1792). "Flora Lapponica" London: B. White & Son. Linnaeus, C, (1737). "Flora Lapponica exhibens plantas Lapponiam crescentes, secundum Systema Sexuale Collectas in Itinere." Amstelaedami: Apud Salomonem Schouten.