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GB-110/JES/COR/3/113
Title
Frank Sayers, [Lower] Close, [Norwich, Norfolk], to James Edward Smith
Letter date
3 Oct 1808
Author(s)
Frank Sayers 1763-1817
Number of Pages
4
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GB-110/JES/COR/3/113 from Frank Sayers, [Lower] Close, [Norwich, Norfolk], to James Edward Smith (3 October 1808)
Metadata for GB-110/JES/COR/3/113 from Frank Sayers, [Lower] Close, [Norwich, Norfolk], to James Edward Smith (3 October 1808) Close
Item data
Item Type:
Document
From:
Sayers, Frank
Sent from:
Norwich, Norfolk
To:
Smith, Sir James Edward
Summary:
Further thoughts on "Kuamos"["Cyamus" transliterated from Greek alphabet, appropriated in English as "legumen"] following his previous letter of 12 September 1808. As Theophrastus was the earliest Greek writer to use "Kuamos" conjectures that the Hindu 'Nymphaea nelumbo' may have been first imported from the East by Alexander the Great, and introduced to Egypt in a similar way. Explains why the "Kuamos" held to be an "abomination" by the Ancient Egyptians, according to Herodotus, was not 'Nymphaea nelumbo'.
Letter date:
3 Oct 1808
Languages:
English
Prev Ref No:
3.181
Additional Information:
| Note type | Note |
|---|---|
| Related Material | For further discussion of 'Cyamus' see letter from Corrêa de Serra JES/COR/3/97, previous letter from Frank Sayers JES/COR/3/112, and letter from William Wood JES/COR/3/114. Further discussion of the 'Cyamus nelumbo' including extract from Smith's "Exotic Botany" see Smith, P (ed.), (1832). "Memoir and correspondence of... Sir James Edward Smith" London: Longman, vol 2, pp.228-232. |
| Publn Note | Smith, P (ed.), (1832). "Memoir and correspondence of... Sir James Edward Smith" London: Longman, vol 2, pp.226-228. |
| 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. |
