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GB-110/JES/COR/6/41
Title
Aylmer Bourke Lambert to James Edward Smith, Norwich, [Norfolk]
Letter date
28 Jan 1805
Author(s)
Aylmer Bourke Lambert 1761-1842
Number of Pages
4
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GB-110/JES/COR/6/41 from Aylmer Bourke Lambert to James Edward Smith, Norwich, [Norfolk] (28 January 1805)
Metadata for GB-110/JES/COR/6/41 from Aylmer Bourke Lambert to James Edward Smith, Norwich, [Norfolk] (28 January 1805) Close
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Item Type:
Document
From:
Lambert, Aylmer Bourke
To:
Smith, Sir James Edward
Sent to location:
Norwich, Norfolk
Summary:
Has just returned from Lewis [Lewes], Sussex, surprised to find herbarium of [Peter Simon] Pallas in possession of [John Marten] Cripps [(1780-1853) traveller and antiquary]. It contains all the plants of "Flora Rossica", Gmelin's "Flora Sibirica", and Pallas' "Travels". Also complete collection of Forster's plants, and several of Sir Joseph Banks' South Sea plants, Pallas being the only person Banks sent any to. Pleased with Smith's "Exotic Botany". A "curious conversation" at Soho Square, asks Smith if he [Lambert] ever signed Dr T's certificate [Robert John Thornton (1768-1837) physician and writer on botany, angered several botanists in pursuit of completing his work "New Illustration of the Sexual System of Linnaeus"].
Letter date:
28 Jan 1805
Languages:
English
Prev Ref No:
6.76
Additional Information:
| Note type | Note |
|---|---|
| Additional | Smith replied 2 Feb [1803] |
| 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 further discussion of Thornton see JES/COR/6/42; JES/COR/6/43. Pallas, P S, (1784-1788). "Flora Rossica, seu stirpium imperii Rossici per Europam et Asiam indigenarum descriptiones et icones..." Petropolis: [printer:] Weitbrecht. Gmelin, J G, (1747-1769). "Flora Sibirica sive historia plantarum Sibiriae." Petropoli: Ex Typographia Academiae Scientiarum. Pallas, P S, (1820-1823). "Travels through the southern provinces of the Russian Empire ... 1793 and 1794. Translated from the German ..." London: Longman. Smith, J E, (1804-1805). "Exotic botany: consisting of coloured figures, and... descriptions, of... rare plants... in the gardens of Britain... The figures by James Sowerby..." London: J. Sowerby. Lambert, A B, 'Some Account of the Herbarium of Professor Pallas.', "Transactions of the Linnean Society of London", 1811 10(2), pp.256-265. Thornton, R J, (1797-1807). "A new illustration of the sexual system of Linnaeus." London: [privately]. |
