Francis Hamilton, Leny, [Stirling], to Sir James Edward Smith

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Ref No GB-110/JES/COR/2/147
Title Francis Hamilton, Leny, [Stirling], to Sir James Edward Smith
Letter date 25 May 1824
Author(s) Francis Hamilton 1762-1829
Number of Pages 2

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GB-110/JES/COR/2/147 from Francis Hamilton, Leny, [Stirling], to Sir James Edward Smith (25 May 1824)

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Item Type: Document
From: Hamilton, Francis
Sent from: Leny, Stirling
To: Smith, Sir James Edward
Summary:

Thanks for "Flora Anglica". Making strong progress with "Hortus Malabaricus". Has given commentary on the first volume of the "Herbarium Amboinense" to the Wernerian Society in Edinburgh but doubtful whether it will appear. [William Jackson] Hooker is to compile detailed observations that are suited for neither commentaries and publish them in the Edinburgh Philosophical Journal. Complains that Venlenat, [Augustin Pyramus] de Candolle, [Carl Sigismund] Kunth "and other Goths are overwhelming us with new orders", which he believes [Robert] Brown may be "aiding and abetting", and that they do not understand the difference between an order and a genus as established by Linnaeus.

Letter date: 25 May 1824
Languages: English
Prev Ref No: 2.25
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Note typeNote
CopiesTranscript available from Linnean Society Library.
AdditionalSmith replied 20 Jun [1824]
Related MaterialFor further disucssion of the Hortus Malabaricus and Herbarium Ambionense commentaries see JES/COR/2/143-146; JES/COR/2/148; and Mabberley, D J, Hamilton, F, 'Francis Hamilton's Commentaries with Particular Reference to Meliaceae', "Taxon", 1977 26(5/6), pp.523-540; please note not available from Linnean Society Library. Hudson, W., "Flora Anglica", London: Faulder (1798). Hamilton, F, 'Commentary on the Herbarium Ambionense', "Memoirs of the Wernerian Society of Edinburgh", 1826 5(2), pp.307-383; please note not available from Linnean Society Library. Hamilton, F, 'Commentary on the Second Book of the Herbarium Ambionense', "Memoirs of the Wernerian Society of Edinburgh", 1832 5(2), pp.268-333; please note not available from Linnean Society Library.
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.