Aylmer Bourke Lambert, Grosvenor Street, [London], to Sir James Edward Smith

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Ref No GB-110/JES/COR/6/93
Title Aylmer Bourke Lambert, Grosvenor Street, [London], to Sir James Edward Smith
Letter date 9 Dec 1822
Author(s) Aylmer Bourke Lambert 1761-1842
Number of Pages 4

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GB-110/JES/COR/6/93 from Aylmer Bourke Lambert, Grosvenor Street, [London], to Sir James Edward Smith (9 December 1822)

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Item Type: Document
From: Lambert, Aylmer Bourke
Sent from: London
To: Smith, Sir James Edward
Summary:

News from Linnean Society including new members, [Samuel Goodenough] incapacitated by gout, delay of publication of volume. Lord Grenville [William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville (1759-1834) politician and prime minister, 1806-1807] invites him to Dropmore House, [Buckinghamshire], he is very keen about plants and has allocated twenty acres for cultivating pines, Lambert sent him two species from Boyton, [Wiltshire]. A dinner attended by Barrow of the Admiralty and Captain Bowles, information on a trip to Peru. An account of the Island of Crete by [Franz Wilhelm] Sieber [(1789-1844)], reminds Smith that he has purchased Sieber's collections. Requests to borrow book by Cupani and specimens of woody 'Dianthus' and Thunberg's 'Thuja dolabrata'. Captain Franklin and John Richardson's "account of the northern land expedition" to be printed soon, Richardson is comparing his plants with Lambert's. Smith has noted that he replied "with Cupani ed. 2, imperfect, & Lehmann's "Asperifoliae" part 1. Sent a bit of 'Thuja dolabrata'.

Letter date: 9 Dec 1822
Languages: English
Prev Ref No: 6.179
Additional Information:
Note typeNote
AdditionalSmith replied 12 [Dec 1822]
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.