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GB-110/JES/COR/7/20
Title
Thomas Martyn, Pertenhall, [Bedfordshire], to Sir James Edward Smith, Caius College Lodge, Cambridge, [Cambridgeshire]
Letter date
3 Apr 1818
Author(s)
Thomas Martyn 1735-1825
Number of Pages
4
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GB-110/JES/COR/7/20 from Thomas Martyn, Pertenhall, [Bedfordshire], to Sir James Edward Smith, Caius College Lodge, Cambridge, [Cambridgeshire] (3 April 1818)
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Item Type:
Document
From:
Martyn, Thomas
Sent from:
Pertenhall, Bedfordshire
To:
Smith, Sir James Edward
Sent to location:
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Summary:
Smith's candidature for Botany Professorship at Cambridge University. Sorry that Smith met with opposition from Dr Clarke, professor of mineralogy, and Mr Cummings in trying to rearrange botany lecture room. Refutes Clarke's claims that he only ever gave one lecture on botany. Dr [Richard] Walker [(1679-1764) founder of Cambridge Botanic Garden] intended that the botanical garden should promote study of medicine with particular attention to poisonous plants and Martyn always read lecture on poisonous plants, inspired by Dr [William] Heberden's [(1710-1801) lecturer at Cambridge] Materia Medica lectures, however the medical quarter of garden has since been destroyed.
Letter date:
3 Apr 1818
Languages:
English
Prev Ref No:
7.35
Additional Information:
| Note type | Note |
|---|---|
| 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. |
