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

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Ref No GB-110/JES/COR/18/92
Title James Edward Smith, London, to Thomas Jenkinson Woodward, Bungay, [Suffolk]
Letter date 11 Jan 1795
Author(s) Sir James Edward Smith 1759-1828
Number of Pages 4

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GB-110/JES/COR/18/92 from James Edward Smith, London, to Thomas Jenkinson Woodward, Bungay, [Suffolk] (11 January 1795)

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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:

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
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Related MaterialFor 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.