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GB-110/JES/COR/9/5
Title
Eduard Sandifort, Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden, Netherlands], to James Edward Smith, London
Letter date
25 Jun 1793
Author(s)
Eduard Sandifort 1742-1814
Number of Pages
3
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GB-110/JES/COR/9/5 from Eduard Sandifort, Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden, Netherlands], to James Edward Smith, London (25 June 1793)
Metadata for GB-110/JES/COR/9/5 from Eduard Sandifort, Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden, Netherlands], to James Edward Smith, London (25 June 1793) Close
Item data
Item Type:
Document
From:
Sandifort, Eduard
Sent from:
Leiden, Netherlands
To:
Smith, Sir James Edward
Sent to location:
London
Summary:
Their university's "Museum anatomicum" has finally come off the press; sending copies to Smith, British Museum, and Sir Joseph Banks. Requests copies of all Smith's works and copies of first two volumes of "Linnean Transactions", which he hopes will settle the exchange between them.
Has recommended Smith to Schuurmans Steckhoven, whose grandfather was director of Vienna Botanic Gardens, who is seeking a London correspondent to exchange plants with. Requests English version of "Icones pictae" for a friend in Amsterdam who does not understand the Latin.
Letter date:
25 Jun 1793
Languages:
Latin
Prev Ref No:
9.7
Additional Information:
| Note type | Note |
|---|---|
| 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]. |
| 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. |
| Copies | English translation available from Linnean Society Library. |
| Additional | Smith replied 10 Sep [1793] |
