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GB-110/JES/COR/6/32
Title
Aylmer Bourke Lambert, London, to James Edward Smith, Norwich, [Norfolk]
Letter date
27 Dec 1802
Author(s)
Aylmer Bourke Lambert 1761-1842
Number of Pages
4
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GB-110/JES/COR/6/32 from Aylmer Bourke Lambert, London, to James Edward Smith, Norwich, [Norfolk] (27 December 1802)
Metadata for GB-110/JES/COR/6/32 from Aylmer Bourke Lambert, London, to James Edward Smith, Norwich, [Norfolk] (27 December 1802) Close
Item data
Item Type:
Document
From:
Lambert, Aylmer Bourke
Sent from:
London
To:
Smith, Sir James Edward
Sent to location:
Norwich, Norfolk
Summary:
As Smith's printer unable to undertake printing of "A description of the genus Pinus" will have Bensley do it, asks Smith to arrange. Asks Smith to correct synonyms in the manuscript. Will send specimens of 'Pinus cedrus', asks what Smith has done about 'Zizaria'. Manuscript "Life of Linnaeus" now with [William George] Maton. Received letter from [Antonio José] Cavanilles who is about to publish twenty-four genera of ferns. Longs to hear what Smith means "relating to a certain friend" who has taken the chair at last two Linnean Society meetings. Settled in their Grosvenor Street house. Received specimens of 'Papyrus' from Sicily, which is the same as the one from Egypt, divided it with Sir Jospeh Banks.
Letter date:
27 Dec 1802
Languages:
English
Prev Ref No:
6.58
Additional Information:
| Note type | Note |
|---|---|
| Related Material | Pulteney, R, Linnaeus, C, and Maton, W G, (1805). "A general view of the writings of Linnaeus." London: J. Mawman (printer: R. Taylor and co.), 2nd ed. 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. |
| 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 1 Jan 1803 |
