John Stackhouse, Bath, [Somerset], to Sir James Edward Smith

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Ref No GB-110/JES/COR/25/85
Title John Stackhouse, Bath, [Somerset], to Sir James Edward Smith
Letter date 29 Oct 1817
Author(s) John Stackhouse 1742-1819
Number of Pages 2

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GB-110/JES/COR/25/85 from John Stackhouse, Bath, [Somerset], to Sir James Edward Smith (29 October 1817)

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Item Type: Document
From: Stackhouse, John
Sent from: Bath, Somerset
To: Smith, Sir James Edward
Summary:

Forwards book by [Jean Vincent Félix] Lamouroux [(1779-1825), botanist] Smith purchased off him. Requests Smith's opinion on enclosed 'Ulva' specimen [Smith annotation: "merely 'Fucus saccharinus' rather longe!"]. He has been in Shropshire this summer, studying the larch beetle , which "continues its ravages"; in correspondence with [William] Kirby on subject and will present paper to Linnean Society.

Letter date: 29 Oct 1817
Languages: English
Prev Ref No: 25.179
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Related MaterialLamouroux, J V F, (1816). "Histoire des polypiers coralligenes flexibles vulgairement nommes zoophytes." Caen: [printer:] Poisson. Lamouroux, J V F, (1813). "Rapport sur le ble Lammas..." Caen: Societe d'Agriculture.
Finding AidsDawson, 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.