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GB-110/JES/MS238/6
Title
James Edward Smith, London, to Richard Pulteney, Blandford, Dorsetshire
Letter date
22 Mar 1790
Author(s)
Sir James Edward Smith 1759-1828
Number of Pages
4
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GB-110/JES/MS238/6 from James Edward Smith, London, to Richard Pulteney, Blandford, Dorsetshire (22 March 1790)
Metadata for GB-110/JES/MS238/6 from James Edward Smith, London, to Richard Pulteney, Blandford, Dorsetshire (22 March 1790) Close
Item data
Item Type:
Document
From:
Smith, Sir James Edward
Sent from:
London
To:
Pulteney, Richard
Sent to location:
Blandford, Dorset
Summary:
Thanks for Pulteney's book, has already "devoured" a great part of it at Sir Joseph Banks'. Will send his second fasciculus [of "Plantarum icones"], sorry to have been "polemical, but thought a little chastisement of an impertinent fellow would save me future quarrels". Offers to send Gaertner and L'Héritier's latest works. Encloses list of Linnean Society members, 25 were present at their anniversary meeting. [Aylmer Bourke] Lambert likely to make "great discoveries" in Ireland.
Letter date:
22 Mar 1790
Languages:
English
Additional Information:
| Note type | Note |
|---|---|
| Related Material | Pulteney, R, (1790). "Historical and biographical sketches of the progress of botany in England from its origin to the introduction of the Linnaean system." London: Cadell. Smith, J E, and Linnaeus, C, (1789-1791). "Plantarum icones hactenus ineditae, plerumque ad plantas in herbario Linnaeo conservatas delineatae." Londini: Impensis Benj. White et Filii. |
