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GB-110/JES/COR/3/74
Title
Edward Daniel Clarke, Jesus College, Cambridge, [Cambridgeshire], to James Edward Smith
Letter date
[1804]
Author(s)
Edward Daniel Clarke 1769-1822
Number of Pages
2
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GB-110/JES/COR/3/74 from Edward Daniel Clarke, Jesus College, Cambridge, [Cambridgeshire], to James Edward Smith (1804)
Metadata for GB-110/JES/COR/3/74 from Edward Daniel Clarke, Jesus College, Cambridge, [Cambridgeshire], to James Edward Smith (1804) Close
Item data
Item Type:
Document
From:
Clarke, Edward Daniel
Sent from:
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
To:
Smith, Sir James Edward
Summary:
Thanks Smith for his letter regarding the "little 'Dianthus'", comments on how the blossoms sometimes abruptly close at mid-day. Sending specimen and seeds of a possibly new 'Astragalus' [Smith has annotated above "only 'pilosus'"], which [George] Don had preserved for himself, a living specimen has been sent to Sir Joseph Banks but it has not been acknowledged. Gives a brief description of the leaves.
Letter date:
[1804]
Languages:
English
Prev Ref No:
3.137
Additional Information:
| Note type | Note |
|---|---|
| Related Material | For Clarke's letter on the 'Dianthus' see JES/COR/3/73. |
| 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. |
| Additional | Smith replied 18 Apr 1805 |
