Item data
Ref No
GB-110/JES/COR/20/83
Title
Jacob Bigelow, Boston, [Massachusetts], to Sir James Edward Smith
Letter date
10 Mar 1821
Author(s)
Jacob Bigelow 1787-1879
Number of Pages
2
See full metadata
See comments
Collection home page
Actions (login required)
 |
Edit Item |
GB-110/JES/COR/20/83 from Jacob Bigelow, Boston, [Massachusetts], to Sir James Edward Smith (10 March 1821)
Metadata for GB-110/JES/COR/20/83 from Jacob Bigelow, Boston, [Massachusetts], to Sir James Edward Smith (10 March 1821) Close
Item data
Item Type:
Document
From:
Bigelow, Jacob
Sent from:
Boston, Massachusetts
To:
Smith, Sir James Edward
Summary:
Sends concluding numbers of his "Medical Botany"; apologises for the quality of the engravings, a consequence of the "low state of the arts" in USA; engraved in aquatint and printed in colours. Thanks for naming a genus in his honour ['Bigelowia']; unknown to him until supplement of Rees' "Cyclopedia" was reprinted here; recently obtained specimen of a new 'B. pubescens' from Mr Nuttall of Louisiana; [Jean Louis Marie] Poiret [(1755-1834), botanist] has named the genus 'Forrestiera'.
Letter date:
10 Mar 1821
Languages:
English
Prev Ref No:
20.132
Additional Information:
| Note type | Note |
|---|---|
| Finding Aids | Dawson, W R (1934). "Catalogue of the manuscripts in the Library of The Linnean Society - Part I. The Smith papers: The correspondence and miscellaneous papers of Sir James Edward Smith", London: Linnean Society. |
| Related Material | Bigelow, J, (1817-1820). "American medical botany" Boston: Cummings. Rees, A (comp.) et al, (1819-1820). "The cyclopædia, or, universal dictionary of arts, sciences, and literature." London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown. |
| Additional | Smith replied 30 May [1821] |
