Aylmer Bourke Lambert, Boyton House, [Wiltshire], to James Edward Smith, Norwich, [Norfolk]

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Ref No GB-110/JES/COR/6/45
Title Aylmer Bourke Lambert, Boyton House, [Wiltshire], to James Edward Smith, Norwich, [Norfolk]
Letter date 1 Oct 1805
Author(s) Aylmer Bourke Lambert 1761-1842
Number of Pages 4

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GB-110/JES/COR/6/45 from Aylmer Bourke Lambert, Boyton House, [Wiltshire], to James Edward Smith, Norwich, [Norfolk] (1 October 1805)

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

[William George] Maton is teaching botany to the women of the Royal Family; spends two hours a day with the Queen [Charlotte (1744-1818), wife of George III] and reads with Princess Elizabeth who is "determined to become an expert British botanist". The Queen bought Gaertner on Maton's recommendation. They are forming a herbarium of marine plants, "the monarch himself often comes in to see them at their labours" and Smith and [Samuel] Goodenough's names are often mentioned. Has sent a capsule of the 'Ochroma' which the Queen intends to grow at Frogmore.
Informed by [George] Jackson that [Jonas] Dryander "is quite restored to botany" and is publishing a paper in [Charles] Konig's "Annals" on "Chloris Novae Hollandiae". Received first part of Labillarière's "New Holland Plants". Has specimens of 'Solanum pyracanthos' for [James] Sowerby. Received seeds from [Antonio José] Cavanillies which are in no other collection except at Kew. Has raised from seed twenty plants of 'Cinchona caribaea'. Pleased with Smith's account of "our friend Sarum" [Richard Salisbury] in "Exotic Botany". Has sent Sowerby complete specimens of the "Lambert nut". Has received first part of [Alexander von] Humboldt's and [Aimé] Bonpland's "Plantae aquinoetiales". Requests specimen of 'Trapa natans'.

Letter date: 1 Oct 1805
Languages: English
Prev Ref No: 6.83
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.
Related MaterialLabillarière, J J H de, (1804). "Novae Hollandiae plantarum specimen" Parisii: ex Typographia Huzard.