Christiaan Hendrik Persoon, Göttingen, [Germany], to James Edward Smith

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Ref No GB-110/JES/COR/8/39
Title Christiaan Hendrik Persoon, Göttingen, [Germany], to James Edward Smith
Letter date 20 Jun 1796
Author(s) Christiaan Hendrik Persoon 1761-1836
Number of Pages 4

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GB-110/JES/COR/8/39 from Christiaan Hendrik Persoon, Göttingen, [Germany], to James Edward Smith (20 June 1796)

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Item Type: Document
From: Persoon, Christiaan Hendrik
Sent from: Göttingen, Germany
To: Smith, Sir James Edward
Summary:

Asks after drawings of various fungi he sent Smith last winter to be engraved for further study, as illustrations to a paper he withheld from sending; if it is too late for the paper to appear in "Linnean Transactions" vol 3 requests that they be returned. Sends first part of his "Observationes mycologicae", hopes Smith welcomes it in same way he welcomed his "Dispositio methodica fungorum". Requests plants from enclosed desiderata [extant].

Letter date: 20 Jun 1796
Languages: Latin
Prev Ref No: 8.65
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