Item data
Item Type:
Document
From:
Martyn, Thomas
Sent from:
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
To:
Smith, Sir James Edward
Sent to location:
Norwich, Norfolk
Summary:
Thanks for copy of Smith's "Grammar [of botany]", which "speaks the hand of a Master, concise yet full". Amused when he sees the "miserable incorrect compilations & imitations" of Smith's former work, and when Smith's "[English] Flora" is published, "the British botanist will find everything he wants in these three works of yours". If he was younger he would pursue study of the Natural Orders, and is sometimes vexed when people say the Natural System will supersede the Artificial.
He no longer has communication with Cambridge [Botanic Garden]; pleased to hear the Liverpool garden flourishes; uncertain of state of Oxford's. Pleased to see "such vast improvements" in botany and horticulture over the last 20 years, even though it renders his own work of no value. His health.
Letter date:
9 Mar 1821
Languages:
English
Additional Information:
| Note type | Note |
|---|
| Additional | Smith replied 12 [Mar 1821] |
| Related Material | Rousseau, J, Martyn, T, (1794). "Letters on the elements of botany ... by ... J.J. Rousseau; translated into English with notes, and ... letters, fully explaining the system of Linnaeus, by Thomas Martyn." London: B. & J. White, 4th ed.
Smith, J E, (1821). "A grammar of botany, illustrative of artificial, as well as natural, classification, with an explanation of Jussieu's system." London: Longman.
Smith, J E, Hooker, W J, and Berkeley, M, (1824-1828). "The English flora", London: Longman. |
