William Lort Mansel, Trinity Lodge, [Cambridge, Cambridgeshire], to Sir James Edward Smith

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Ref No GB-110/JES/COR/7/43
Title William Lort Mansel, Trinity Lodge, [Cambridge, Cambridgeshire], to Sir James Edward Smith
Letter date 6 Apr 1818
Author(s) William Lort Mansel 1753-1820
Number of Pages 3

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GB-110/JES/COR/7/43 from William Lort Mansel, Trinity Lodge, [Cambridge, Cambridgeshire], to Sir James Edward Smith (6 April 1818)

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Item Type: Document
From: Mansel, William Lort
Sent from: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
To: Smith, Sir James Edward
Summary:

Smith's candidature for Botany Professorship at Cambridge University. Sorry to hear of the measures the tutors have taken against Smith's proposed lectures. [Several tutors signed a paper addressed to the Vice-Chancellor stating that pupils should not be permitted to attend lectures given by a lecturer who was neither a member of the university nor of the Church of the England].

Letter date: 6 Apr 1818
Languages: English
Prev Ref No: 7.78
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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.