James Edward Smith, London, to Thomas Jenkinson Woodward, Bungay, Suffolk

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Ref No GB-110/JES/COR/18/63
Title James Edward Smith, London, to Thomas Jenkinson Woodward, Bungay, Suffolk
Letter date 30 Nov 1792
Author(s) Sir James Edward Smith 1759-1828
Number of Pages 4

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GB-110/JES/COR/18/63 from James Edward Smith, London, to Thomas Jenkinson Woodward, Bungay, Suffolk (30 November 1792)

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

Responds to Woodward's queries in previous letter [of 18 November 1792] concerning 'Fucus' specimens. Woodward's paper on 'Fucus dasyphyllus' was read at Linnean Society and will probably be added to "Linnean Transactions" vol 2. 'Fucus furcellatus' Linnaean herbarium different from all the other 'Fucus' he has seen.
Intends to rename 'Blechnum radicans', 'B. virginicum', 'B. japonicum', and a new one, as 'Woodwardia', as the first two grow in British gardens, and this will group it with 'Davallia' and 'Dickonsia'; [Jonas] Dryander approves. Dr [Erasmus] Darwin and Sir Brooke Boothby [7th baronet, (1744-1824), poet and writer] are elected FLS.

Letter date: 30 Nov 1792
Languages: English
Prev Ref No: 18.131
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Related MaterialFor Woodward's letter of 18 November 1792, to which this is a reply, see JES/COR/18/62. Woodward, T J, [1792]. "Description of Fucus dasyphyllus". Woodward, T J, 'Description of Fucus dasyphyllus', "Transactions of the Linnean Society of London", 1794 2(1), pp.239-241.