Item data
Ref No
GB-110/JES/COR/2/129
Title
Francis Buchanan to James Edward Smith
Letter date
3 Aug 1806
Author(s)
Francis Hamilton 1762-1829
Number of Pages
4
See full metadata
See comments
Collection home page
Actions (login required)
 |
Edit Item |
GB-110/JES/COR/2/129 from Francis Buchanan to James Edward Smith (3 August 1806)
Metadata for GB-110/JES/COR/2/129 from Francis Buchanan to James Edward Smith (3 August 1806) Close
Item data
Item Type:
Document
From:
Hamilton, Francis
Sent from:
London
To:
Smith, Sir James Edward
Summary:
Directs Smith to ask Sir A[braham] or Lady [Amelia] Hume to recommend him as a botanist to [Jacob] Bosanquet [a director of East India Company] and to solicit Bosanquet's assistance with promoting science in the Court [of Directors of the East India Company]. Approves of Smith naming 'Hatucona' after [William] Roscoe and compliments Roscoe's paper on 'Scitaminiae'. Recommends renaming 'Sussodia' if Smith is urgently looking to publish a 'Buchanania'. Recommends Smith reuse the name 'Colebrookia' on new genus in the order of 'Vitices'; laments barbarous nature of names.
Letter date:
3 Aug 1806
Languages:
English
Prev Ref No:
2.216
Additional Information:
| Note type | Note |
|---|---|
| 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 further on the Humes' involvement with Buchanan see JES/COR/2/128; JES/COR/2/130-131; JES/COR/5/92-93. Roscoe, W, 'A New Arrangement of the Plants of the Monandrian Class usually called Scitamineae', "Transactions of the Linnean Society of London", 1807 8(1), pp.330-357. |
| Copies | Transcript available from Linnean Society Library. |
