Aylmer Bourke Lambert, Salisbury, [Wiltshire], to James Edward Smith, 12 Great Marlborough Street, London

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Ref No GB-110/JES/COR/6/19
Title Aylmer Bourke Lambert, Salisbury, [Wiltshire], to James Edward Smith, 12 Great Marlborough Street, London
Letter date 21 Dec 1789
Author(s) Aylmer Bourke Lambert 1761-1842
Number of Pages 4

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GB-110/JES/COR/6/19 from Aylmer Bourke Lambert, Salisbury, [Wiltshire], to James Edward Smith, 12 Great Marlborough Street, London (21 December 1789)

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Item Type: Document
From: Lambert, Aylmer Bourke
Sent from: Salisbury, Wiltshire
To: Smith, Sir James Edward
Sent to location: London
Summary:

Shortly leaving for Connaught [Connacht, Ireland], hopes to be more successful with his natural history researches than on his last visit. Asks after a "Flora Hibernica" he believes he heard of in London. Extract from unnamed book recently published in Ireland on discovery of elk antlers and skeleton in 1783 on the "sea lands of the Bishop of Dromore". Encloses drawing [not extant] of a "Borer" insect causing damage to West Indies sugar canes as the Hessian fly does in America, sent larvae to [Thomas] Marsham.

Letter date: 21 Dec 1789
Languages: English
Prev Ref No: 6.32
Additional Information:
Note typeNote
AdditionalSmith replied 22 May 1790
Publn NoteExtract on elk antlers and insect appended as a postscript in transcript of letter JES/COR/6/20 in Smith, P (ed.), (1832). "Memoir and correspondence of... Sir James Edward Smith" London: Longman, vol 2, pp.127-128.
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.