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GB-110/JES/COR/9/2
Title
Eduard Sandifort, Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden, Netherlands], to James Edward Smith
Letter date
14 Apr 1789
Author(s)
Eduard Sandifort 1742-1814
Number of Pages
3
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GB-110/JES/COR/9/2 from Eduard Sandifort, Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden, Netherlands], to James Edward Smith (14 April 1789)
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Item Type:
Document
From:
Sandifort, Eduard
Sent from:
Leiden, Netherlands
To:
Smith, Sir James Edward
Summary:
Thanks for favours Smith has gone out of his way for. Requests any of Smith's writings on Linnaeus he might have produced since returning from his travels, and will advertise "Icones pictae plantarum rariorum". He has searched in vain for [James] Barbut's [(1711-1788), naturalist] "Genera insectorum" and "Genera vermium", and [James] Bolton's [(1735-1799), botanist] "History of fungusses".
80 anatomical wax models now complete, but many remain before the work is completed, and he has decided to publish it as a whole rather than in sections. Requests Smith's assistance in procuring a copy of Sir Joseph Banks' just published "sketches of plants".
Letter date:
14 Apr 1789
Languages:
Latin
Prev Ref No:
9.3
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. |
| Related Material | Smith, J E, (1790-1793). "Icones pictae plantarum rariorum descriptionibus et observationibus illustratae auctore Jacobo Edvardo Smith. - Coloured figures of rare plants ..." London: [privately]. Barbut, J, (1781). "Les genres des insectes de Linn‚... (The genera ... Plates interleaved, annotated and painted. Engr. title page in English. English and French in parallel columns. Free translation from Syst.Nat." Londres: [the Author]. Barbut, J, (1783). "The genera Vermium exemplified by various specimens of the animals contained in the orders of the Intestina et Mollusca Linnaei." London: [Printer] James Dixwell (for the author). Bolton, J, (1788). "An history of fungusses growing about Halifax ..." Halifax: [privately]. |
| Additional | Smith replied 25 Jun [1789] |
| Copies | English translation available from Linnean Society Library. |
