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GB-110/JES/COR/5/80
Title
Sir James Edward Smith to Robert Hodgson
Letter date
[May 1817]
Author(s)
Sir James Edward Smith 1759-1828
Number of Pages
2
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GB-110/JES/COR/5/80 from Sir James Edward Smith to Robert Hodgson (May 1817)
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Item Type:
Document
From:
Smith, Sir James Edward
To:
Hodgson, Robert
Summary:
Understands and accepts Hodgson's reasons for resigning as FLS but if he had notice would have tried to controvert some of those reasons. Always pleased to see botany "cultivated by persons eminent in character or station". Mutual benefits of clergy studying botany. Believes the study of nature is "inferior to none in dignity or utility", never meeting more than one "fanatic" who thought otherwise, "gibbeted" him [unnamed] in a note in Linnaeus' "Lapland Tour".
Letter date:
[May 1817]
Languages:
English
Prev Ref No:
5.149
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 Hodgson's letter of 20 May 1817, to which this is a reply, see JES/COR/5/79. Linnaeus, C, Smith, J E and Troilus, C (tr.), (1811). "Lachesis Lapponica, or a Tour in Lapland [1732]. Now first published from the original manuscript journal of the celebrated Linnaeus." London: White & Cochrane. |
