Elizabeth Noel, Bath, [Somerset], to James Edward Smith, Marlborough Street, London

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Ref No GB-110/JES/COR/7/116
Title Elizabeth Noel, Bath, [Somerset], to James Edward Smith, Marlborough Street, London
Letter date 6 Apr 1795
Author(s) Elizabeth Noel 1731-1801
Number of Pages 6

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GB-110/JES/COR/7/116 from Elizabeth Noel, Bath, [Somerset], to James Edward Smith, Marlborough Street, London (6 April 1795)

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Item Type: Document
From: Noel, Elizabeth
Sent from: Bath, Somerset
To: Smith, Sir James Edward
Sent to location: London
Summary:

Had heard from [Thomas] Velley that Smith was ill but infers from the advertisements for his series of lectures that he has recovered. Offers to send specimens of the 'Avena sterilis' she has planted as thanks for Smith's observations on it, remarks on the "animated flowers". Asks if Smith knows of a "Guernsey lily", which [Carl Peter] Thunberg believes to be from Japan, flowering a second time from one root, in England, without the use of a hothouse, as hers has. Details of how she achieved it, quotes [Thomas] Fairchild [(1667-1729)] from one of [William] Curtis' "Botanical Magazines", believes the same may be true of 'Amaryllis sarniensis'. [John] Stackhouse to visit, he is about to publish work on seaweed.

Letter date: 6 Apr 1795
Languages: English
Prev Ref No: 7.201
Additional Information:
Note typeNote
AdditionalSmith replied 13 [Apr 1793]
Related MaterialStackhouse, J, (1795-1801). "Nereis Britannica; continens species omnes fucorum in insulis Britannicis crescentium: descriptone latina et Anglica... containing all species of fuci... (An appendix, containing species recently delineated...); Nereis Britannica ..." Bathonia: [privately].
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.