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GB-110/JES/COR/6/21
Title
Aylmer Bourke Lambert, Grosvenor, London, to James Edward Smith, Norwich, [Norfolk]
Letter date
3 Jan 1798
Author(s)
Aylmer Bourke Lambert 1761-1842
Number of Pages
4
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GB-110/JES/COR/6/21 from Aylmer Bourke Lambert, Grosvenor, London, to James Edward Smith, Norwich, [Norfolk] (3 January 1798)
Metadata for GB-110/JES/COR/6/21 from Aylmer Bourke Lambert, Grosvenor, London, to James Edward Smith, Norwich, [Norfolk] (3 January 1798) Close
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Item Type:
Document
From:
Lambert, Aylmer Bourke
Sent from:
London
To:
Smith, Sir James Edward
Sent to location:
Norwich, Norfolk
Summary:
Sends copy of "Bauer's drawing done by Ennis" [not extant]. Asks is Smith intends a paper on the new genera he mentioned [unnamed]. Sir Joseph Banks has undertaken direction of the engravings [for Lambert's book "Description of the genus Pinus"] after being shown the drawings. Asks if 'Pinus orientalis' is in the Linnaean collections or anything else worth observing, and whether there is any information in Peter Collinson's [(1694-1768) botanist] letters, mentions Smith's intention of publishing them. Presided at Linnean Society, paper read on "the zoology of Leith" by Robert Jameson. Mungo Park [(1771-1806) surgeon and traveller] has returned from Africa "with great discoveries".
Letter date:
3 Jan 1798
Languages:
English
Prev Ref No:
6.36
Additional Information:
| Note type | Note |
|---|---|
| Related Material | Lambert, A B, (1803-1807). "A description of the genus Pinus ... (Some account of the medicinal and other uses of various substances prepared from the trees of the genus Pinus. By William George Maton.) [Volume 1.]." London: White. Sweet, J M, (1963). "Robert Jameson in London, 1793: excerpts from Robert Jameson's ''Journal of a voyage from Leith to London 1793"". |
| 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. |
| Additional | Smith replied 13 Jan [1798] |
