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GB-110/JES/COR/9/35
Title
Josef August Schultes, Landshutt, Bavaria, to Sir James Edward Smith
Letter date
13 Jun 1817
Author(s)
Josef August Schultes 1773-1831
Number of Pages
4
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GB-110/JES/COR/9/35 from Josef August Schultes, Landshutt, Bavaria, to Sir James Edward Smith (13 June 1817)
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Item Type:
Document
From:
Schultes, Josef August
Sent from:
Landshutt, Bavaria
To:
Smith, Sir James Edward
Summary:
Has dedicated his history of botany to Smith ["Anleitung zum grundlichen Studium der Botanik"]. He has written it as an up to date version of [Kurt] Sprengel's similar work, but in German rather than Latin. [Johann Jacob] Römer [(1763-1819), Swiss physician and botanist] to send Smith first volume of their new edition of Linnaeus' "Systema vegetabilium"; remarks on the increase in sheets needed to take in new discoveries and explains some of the plan. Has been asked to translate Smith's "Introduction to Physiological and Systematical Botany"; asks if there any remarks he would like to add. Offers to send alpine seeds.
Letter date:
13 Jun 1817
Languages:
English
Prev Ref No:
9.69
Additional Information:
| Note type | Note |
|---|---|
| Related Material | Schultes, J A, (1817). "Anleitung zum grundlichen Studium der Botanik ... (Grundriss einer Geschichte und Literatur der Botanik, von Theophrastos Eresios bis auf die neuesten Zeiten; nebst einer Geschcihte der botanischen Garten.)." Wien: Schaumburg. Sprengel, K, (1798). "Antiquitatum botanicarum specimem primum." Lipsiae: Impensis Bibliopolii Schaferiani. Linnaeus, C, Römer, J J, Schultes, J A, et al, (1817-1830). "Caroli a Linne equitis systema vegetabilium secundum classes ordines genera species. Cum characteribus, differentiis et synonymis. Editio nova, Speciebus inde ab editione XV. [1797] detectis aucta et locupletata. Curantibus Joanne Jacobo Roemer ... et Jos.Augusto Schultes ... Stuttgardtiae: Sumtibus J.G.Cottae, 15th ed, 7 vols. Smith, J E, (1814). "An Introduction to Physiological and Systematical Botany." London: Longman, 3rd ed. |
| 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. |
