Item data
Item Type:
Document
From:
Lambert, Aylmer Bourke
Sent from:
London
To:
Smith, Sir James Edward
Sent to location:
Norwich, Norfolk
Summary:
Complains about his publisher White who has not sent out books as promised and made imperfect copies of Lambert's book. Complains about an individual [possibly Richard Salisbury] who borrowed Lambert's copy of [Charles] Konig's work on ferns and made notes in the book. After discussion with [Robert] Brown also observed that this individual did the same in Sir Joseph Banks' copy of Smith's "Introduction" in reference to "Menzies plant", a dispute over how he obtained his information. Lord Valentia [George Annesley] has just had a "dreadful operation", the first sheet of his "'Travels" has just been printed, intends addressing Salisbury severely in the first volume over his "very indecent paper". Has just written an account of his own herbarium for possible publication.
Letter date:
25 Feb 1808
Languages:
English
Prev Ref No:
6.115
Additional Information:
| Note type | Note |
|---|
| Additional | Smith replied 16 Mar [1808] |
| Related Material | Sprengel, K P J, and Koenig, C D E (tr.), (1807). "An introduction to the study of cryptogamous plants." London: White.
Smith, J E, (1807). "An Introduction to Physiological and Systematical Botany." London: Longman.
Annesley, G, (1811). "Voyages and travels to India, Ceylon, the Red Sea, Abyssinia and Egypt ... 1802 ... 1806 ... By George Viscount Valentia." London: Rivington. |
| 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. |
