Item data
Item Type:
Document
From:
Rafinesque, Constantine Samuel
Sent from:
New York
To:
Smith, Sir James Edward
Sent to location:
London
Summary:
Introduces [John] Bradbury, who is returning to England after travelling up the Missouri river. Rafinesque asks for his papers to be returned if they are not being published in "Linnean Transactions". Requests introductions to [William Elford] Leach, [Robert] Brown, [Aylmer Bourke] Lambert, [Richard] Salisbury, and "other eminent botanists and zoologists". Criticises Pursh's "Flora America Septentrionalis" for copying names previously published himself. Dr [Samuel Latham] Mitchill of New York [(1764-1831) naturalist] has published 60 new species of fish in first volume of "Transactions of the [New York] Society" and presented them with account of reptiles, crustaceans, testaceurs etc. Rafinesque has discovered new additional species: 'Perca mucronata', 'Petromyzon xanthodon', 'Phycis marginatus', and presented memoir to New York Philosophical Society on Sturgeons of North America. Plans to explore Lakes Champlain and George, [Vermont and New York] for fish.
Letter date:
15 Jul 1816
Languages:
English
Prev Ref No:
8.143
Additional Information:
| Note type | Note |
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| Related Material | For two letters from Bradbury to Smith including discussion of Missouri journey see JES/COR/2/73-74.
Pursh, F T, (1814). "Flora Americae Septentrionalis; or, a systematic arrangement and description of the plants of North America..." London: White. |
