Item data
Item Type:
Document
From:
Smith, Sir James Edward
Sent from:
London
To:
Woodward, Thomas Jenkinson
Sent to location:
Bungay, Suffolk
Summary:
Sending fourth number of "[Botany of] New Holland"; since printing has ascertained 3 more species of 'Styphelia'. Acquisition of coins. Woodward's 'Ulva' paper read and respectfully received. Requests [John] Stackhouse's paper [on 'Fucus punctata']. [Samuel] Goodenough confined with gout. Received [Thomas] Velley's "fine work" ["Coloured figures of marine plants"]. Woodward correct about 'Fucus concatenatus' and 'F. foeniculaceus', Velley has also remarked on this.
His father has been severely ill with a swollen leg but now recovering; "he is a counsellor & friend we could ill have spared, independent of the attachment we all have for him". Occupied by his work on "Georgian insects", after which he will return to his "Flora [Britannica"]. [William] Curtis has figured a 'Goodenia laevigata', believes it is his 'G. albida'.
Letter date:
11 Jan 1795
Languages:
English
Prev Ref No:
18.194
Additional Information:
| Note type | Note |
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| Related Material | For Woodward's letters of 20 October 1794 and 3 December 1794, to which this is a reply, see JES/COR/18/88 and JES/COR/18/91, respectively.
Smith, J E, (1793). "A specimen of the botany of New Holland. The figures by James Sowerby." London: J. Sowerby.
Woodward, T J. "Observations upon the generic character of Ulva with descriptions of some new species." Read 4/12/1794. Also a preliminary draft.
Woodward, T J, 'Observations upon the Generic Character of Ulva, with Descriptions of some new Species', "Transactions of the Linnean Society of London", 1797 3(1), pp.46-58.
Stackhouse, J, 'Description of Ulva punctata', "Transactions of the Linnean Society of London", 1797 3(1), pp.236-237.
Velley, T, (1795). "Coloured figures of marine plants, found on the southern coast of England ... accompanied with a figure of the Arabis stricta ... To which is prefixed an inquiry into the mode of propagation peculiar to sea plants. Plantarum maritimarum ..." Bathoniae: Hazard.
Smith, J E, (1797). "The natural history of the rarer lepidopterous insects of Georgia ... from the observations of Mr. John Abbot ..." London: Edwards.
Smith, J E, (1800-1804). "Flora Britannica" London: Davis. |
