Aylmer Bourke Lambert, Castle Bourke, Tuam, Mayo, [Ireland], to James Edward Smith

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Ref No GB-110/JES/COR/6/20
Title Aylmer Bourke Lambert, Castle Bourke, Tuam, Mayo, [Ireland], to James Edward Smith
Letter date [May 1790]
Author(s) Aylmer Bourke Lambert 1761-1842
Number of Pages 4

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GB-110/JES/COR/6/20 from Aylmer Bourke Lambert, Castle Bourke, Tuam, Mayo, [Ireland], to James Edward Smith (May 1790)

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Item Type: Document
From: Lambert, Aylmer Bourke
Sent from: Tuam, Mayo, Ireland
To: Smith, Sir James Edward
Summary:

Plants found in the last month in Westport, County Mayo, [Ireland]: 'Andromeda daboecia', 'Empetrum nigrum', and 'Saxifraga umbrosa', remarking of the latter "the London Pride not in Hudson" ["Flora Anglica"]. Hopes to send an account of Mayo plants. Met Patrick Browne [(c 1720-1790) Irish botanist], "quite a cripple with old age" who showed him a copy of his "Flora Hibernica", believes it not much more than a catalogue [this remained unpublished until 1995]. Browne discussed Jamaican plants [Browne's "The civil and natural history of Jamaica"] and his correspondence with Linnaeus. At Lord Altamont's saw a "true Irish wolf dog", the seven Altamont owns are the only ones left in Ireland. The sheets of a botanical work left with Smith are from [Walter] Wade's intended "Flora Dubliniensi". Parliament have given £300 for Wade's campaign to establish Dublin botanic garden. Wade would like to correspond with Linnean Society and establish an Irish counterpart, requests copy of rules. Hopes [John] Fairbairn received West Indies seeds he sent. Will return to County Mayo for a few more months. Found 'Andromeda polifolia' growing in a bog near Althone.

Letter date: [May 1790]
Languages: English
Prev Ref No: 6.34
Additional Information:
Note typeNote
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.
Publn NoteSmith, P (ed.), (1832). "Memoir and correspondence of... Sir James Edward Smith" London: Longman, vol 2, pp.124-128; postscript belongs to previous letter JES/COR/6/19.
Related MaterialHudson, W, (1762). "Flora Anglica, exhibens plantas per regnum Angliae sponte crescentes..." Londinum: [privately]. Browne, P, (1756). "The civil and natural history of Jamaica ..." London: the Author. Lambert, A B, 'Anecdotes of the late Dr. Patrick Browne, Author of the Natural History of Jamaica', "Transactions of the Linnean Society of London", 1798 4(1), pp.31-34. Browne, P, Nelson, E C (ed.) and Walsh, W, (1995). "Flowers of Mayo, Dr. Patrick Browne's Fasciculus plantarum Hiberniae 1788" Dublin: E. Burke. Lambert, A B, 'Account of the Canis Graius Hibernicus, or Irish Wolf Dog, described in Pennant's History of Quadrupeds, 3d edit. vol. i. p. 241.', "Transactions of the Linnean Society of London", 1797 3(1), pp.16-17. Wade, W, (1794). "Catalogus systematicus plantarum indigenarum in comitatu Dublinensi inventarum." Dublinum: Sleater.
AdditionalSmith replied 22 May 1790