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GB-110/JES/COR/6/67
Title
Aylmer Bourke Lambert, Boyton House, [Wiltshire], to James Edward Smith. Norwich, [Norfolk]
Letter date
9 Aug 1809
Author(s)
Aylmer Bourke Lambert 1761-1842
Number of Pages
4
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GB-110/JES/COR/6/67 from Aylmer Bourke Lambert, Boyton House, [Wiltshire], to James Edward Smith. Norwich, [Norfolk] (9 August 1809)
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Item data
Item Type:
Document
From:
Lambert, Aylmer Bourke
Sent from:
Boyton, Wiltshire
To:
Smith, Sir James Edward
Sent to location:
Norwich, Norfolk
Summary:
A packet from [Jacques-Julien de] Labillardière for Smith. Received latest editions of "Annals du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle" which include the whole of [René Louiche] Desfontaines' "Choix de plantes du Corollaire de Tournefort". Received from Mr Coxe a copper plate of [Peter Simon] Pallas from St Petersburg, will give it to Linnean Society to accompany his paper. Obtained all of [Alexander von] Humboldt's works on plants. Has been busy on Salisbury Plain, is going to Longleat, [Somerset], to visit Lord Bath [Thomas Thynne, 2nd Marquess of Bath (1765-1837)], says of Lady Bath "my Lady fancys [sic] herself very fond of plants but I fancy she is not". Proposes Sir Edward [Hulse] and Mr Duke as Linnean Society members.
Letter date:
9 Aug 1809
Languages:
English
Prev Ref No:
6.129
Additional Information:
| Note type | Note |
|---|---|
| Related Material | Desfontaines, R L, (1808). "Choix de plantes du Corollaire des instituts de [Joseph Pitton de] Tournefort, publiees d'apres son Herbier, et gravees sur les dessins originaux d'Aubriet." Paris: L'Imprimerie de Levrault. Lambert, A B, 'Some Account of the Herbarium of Professor Pallas', "Transactions of the Linnean Society of London", 1811 10(2), pp.256-265. |
| 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. |
