Item data
Item Type:
Document
From:
Butt, Thomas
Sent from:
Trentham, Staffordshire
To:
Smith, Sir James Edward
Sent to location:
Norwich, Norfolk
Summary:
Lord Stafford [George Leveson-Gower (1758-1833)] will give Smith a ticket to see the pictures. Chases up Smith's opinion on a species of 'Carex' he sent some years ago. Deficient in figures of fungi, complains that [James] Sowerby has taken no notice of many species including ones distinct from Sowerby's found by Butt at Arley, Worcestershire. In a "wretched country" for botanising, having seen no rare plants except the 'Andromeda' and the three 'Droseras' which grow near Whitmore, Staffordshire. 'Epilobium angustifolium' gathered wild on the banks of Windermere, Cumberland, is growing in a garden, although Butt thinks it is closer to 'Epilobium angustissimum', offers to send specimens. Lord Valentia [George Annesley] printing his work in London.
Letter date:
23 Dec 1808
Languages:
English
Prev Ref No:
2.185
Additional Information:
Note type | Note |
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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 | For description of the 'Carex' by Butt of 8 May 1804, see JES/COR/2/110. For mention of 'Epilobium' in Butt's letter of 14 July 1809, see JES/COR/2/113.
Annesley, G, (1809). "Voyages and Travels to India, Ceylon, the Red Sea, Abyssinia, and Egypt" London: William Miller, , 3 vols; please note the Linnean Society Library's copy is the 1811 edition. |
Additional | Smith replied 9 Jan 1809 |