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GB-110/JES/COR/9/13
Title
Antonio Scarpa, Pavia, [Italy], to James Edward Smith, chez le Chevalier Banks, Soho Square, London
Letter date
28 Mar 1788
Author(s)
Antonio Scarpa 1752-1832
Number of Pages
2
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GB-110/JES/COR/9/13 from Antonio Scarpa, Pavia, [Italy], to James Edward Smith, chez le Chevalier Banks, Soho Square, London (28 March 1788)
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Item data
Item Type:
Document
From:
Scarpa, Antonio
Sent from:
Pavia, Italy
To:
Smith, Sir James Edward
Sent to location:
London
Summary:
Requests copy of Smith's "De Generatione". Does Smith know in what [Peter Simon] Pallas published about discovering the hearing organs of crayfish. Has translated [John] Hunter's "Memoir on the Digestion" [(1728-1793), surgeon], as well received as Hunter's "Animal economy" and work on venereal diseases. Plans to publish third, fourth, and fifth volumes of his own "Annotations Anatomiques" this year.
Letter date:
28 Mar 1788
Languages:
French
Prev Ref No:
9.25
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, (1786). "Disputatio physiologica inauguralis. Quaedam de Generatione complectens ... ex auctoritate ... Nicolai Georgii Ooesterdyk, ... submittit Jacobus Eduardus Smith, ..." Lugduni Batavorum: Apud Fratres Murray. |
| Additional | Smith replied 16 Jun [1788] |
| Copies | English translation available from Linnean Society Library. |
