Item data
Item Type:
Document
From:
Hooker, Sir William Jackson
Sent from:
Glasgow
To:
Smith, Sir James Edward
Summary:
Thanks for plants; had previously received some of the species from Nepal through [Nathaniel] Wallich, but unnamed. Comments on inconveniences of this "place of banishment", particularly there being no botanical library but his own, nor any botanical friends to consult with. Asks Smith to remember him should he receive interesting specimens; in return sending copy of his "Musci Exotici". Asks if he sent 'Lyellia crispa', and if Smith has seen 'Primula scotia', to be figured in "Flora Londinensis". Blackwood of Edinburgh keen for him to publish a periodical on exotic botany ["Exotic flora"]; requests access to [Francis] Buchanan's East India drawings.
His students have increased by 18 compared to last year, a total of 75 though only 52 were paying students. Expects [Robert] Graham [(1786-1845)] at Edinburgh to make over £1200 from his [botany] professorship, besides his practice as physician; they have formed a new garden of 14 acres, with stoves and greenhouses. Death of Dr Stuart.
Letter date:
31 Jul 1821
Languages:
English
Prev Ref No:
23.8
Additional Information:
| Note type | Note |
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| Related Material | Hooker, W J, (1818-1820). "Musci exotici; containing figures and descriptions of new or little known foreign mosses and other cryptogamic subjects." London: Longman.
Curtis, W, (1819-1828). "Flora Londinensis: containing a history of the plants indigenous to Great Britain, illustrated by figures of the natural size. The description by [Sir] William Jackson Hooker." London: Graves.
Hooker, W J, (1823-1827). "Exotic flora, containing figures and descriptions of new, rare, or otherwise interesting exotic plants..." Edinburgh: Blackwood. |
| 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. |
