Robert Bransby Francis, Surrey Street, [Norwich, Norfolk], to James Edward Smith

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Ref No GB-110/JES/COR/4/105
Title Robert Bransby Francis, Surrey Street, [Norwich, Norfolk], to James Edward Smith
Letter date 20 Sep 1809
Author(s) Robert Bransby Francis 1768-1850
Number of Pages 2

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GB-110/JES/COR/4/105 from Robert Bransby Francis, Surrey Street, [Norwich, Norfolk], to James Edward Smith (20 September 1809)

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Item Type: Document
From: Francis, Robert Bransby
Sent from: Norwich, Norfolk
To: Smith, Sir James Edward
Summary:

Tried to call on Smith to discuss the 'Polypodium cristatum' he sent to [James] Sowerby and other dried specimens he now submits for inspection, inlcuding 'Aspidium cristatum'. Unfamiliar with [William] Withering's 'Polypodium spinulosum' but concludes that the "Holt-fern" is distinct and previously undiscovered in East Anglia, concern that its habitat may be destroyed within a few years by turf-cutters and the approaching banks of recent enclosures.

Letter date: 20 Sep 1809
Languages: English
Prev Ref No: 4.18
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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.