Item data
Item Type:
Document
From:
Lambert, Aylmer Bourke
To:
Smith, Sir James Edward
Sent to location:
Norwich, Norfolk
Summary:
This letter is in two parts with Lambert's letter on both folios and Jackson's on recto of the second folio.
Lambert writes: Lord Valentia [George Annesley] giving the manuscript [of his "Voyages and travels"] to the printer. Smith's paper on 'Vitellus' read at Linnean Society. Gives an update on "our worthy friend Alias [Richard Salisbury]" who has sold Mill Hill and moved to town. A dispute between Salisbury and Evans entailing them both going to Bow Street for redress. Examined [Robert] Brown's New Holland [Australia] plants. Has read Smith's account of [Peter] Collinson [(1694-1768), presumably biographical memoir that appears in Smith's "Selection of the Correspondence of Linnaeus" (1821)]. 'Heritiera allughas' Retz. in flower, believes it the first to raised in England. In postcript says Salisbury has left his card but states he shall not return his own.
Jackson writes: Lambert has determined Smith's 'Blygonum' to be 'Setorum' of Jacquin, details of determination.
Letter date:
18 Nov 1807
Languages:
English
Prev Ref No:
6.105
Additional Information:
| Note type | Note |
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| Related Material | Annesley, G, (1811). "Voyages and travels to India, Ceylon, the Red Sea, Abyssinia and Egypt ... 1802 ... 1806 ... By George Viscount Valentia." London: Rivington.
Smith, J E, 'An Inquiry into the Structure of Seeds, and especially into the true Nature of that Part called by Gaertner the Vitellus', "Transactions of the Linnean Society of London", 1808 9(1), pp.204-217.
Smith, J E, 'Biographical Memoir of Peter Collinson , F.R.S., F.S.A. and his Letters to Linnaeus', in Smith, J E, (1821). "A Selection of the Correspondence of Linnaeus and other naturalists." London: Longman &c. |
| 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. |
