Antonio Scarpa, Pavia, [Italy], to James Edward Smith, chez le Chevalier Banks, Soho Square, London

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Ref No 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 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 typeNote
Finding AidsDawson, 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 MaterialSmith, J E, (1786). "Disputatio physiologica inauguralis. Quaedam de Generatione complectens ... ex auctoritate ... Nicolai Georgii Ooesterdyk, ... submittit Jacobus Eduardus Smith, ..." Lugduni Batavorum: Apud Fratres Murray.
AdditionalSmith replied 16 Jun [1788]
CopiesEnglish translation available from Linnean Society Library.