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GB-110/JES/COR/9/39
Title
Josef August Schultes, Landshutt, Bavaria, to Sir James Edward Smith, Norwich, [Norfolk]
Letter date
5 Jul 1822
Author(s)
Josef August Schultes 1773-1831
Number of Pages
4
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GB-110/JES/COR/9/39 from Josef August Schultes, Landshutt, Bavaria, to Sir James Edward Smith, Norwich, [Norfolk] (5 July 1822)
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Item Type:
Document
From:
Schultes, Josef August
Sent from:
Landshutt, Bavaria
To:
Smith, Sir James Edward
Sent to location:
Norwich, Norfolk
Summary:
Sending fifth and sixth volumes of his "Systema vegetabilium" for Smith. Smith will become the "British botanical Socrates" with his "English Flora", extravagantly compliments Smith. His son has translated Smith's "Grammar of Botany" into German. Horror at the "deplorable confusion of philosophical & theological systems hovering now on the continent". [Franz Wilhelm] Sieber's travels and antiquarian and botanical collections. Count Sternberg has received remainder of [Thaddäus] Haenke's herbarium. [Carl Friedrich Philipp von] Martius publishing descriptions of species he collected in Brazil, starting with the palms. Forthcoming botanical publications by Lehman, Reichenbach, and [Augustin Pyramus] Decandolle's "Prodromus".
Letter date:
5 Jul 1822
Languages:
English
Prev Ref No:
9.76
Additional Information:
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| Related Material | 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, Hooker, W J, and Berkeley, M, (1824-1828). "The English flora", London: Longman. Smith, J E, (1821). "A grammar of botany, illustrative of artificial, as well as natural, classification, with an explanation of Jussieu's system." London: Longman. Martius, C F, (1823-1850). "Historia naturalis palmarum. Opus tripartium ..." Lipsiae: Fleischer. Martius, C F, and Wied-Neuweid, M A, (1829-1833). "Flora Brasiliensis, seu enumeratio plantarum in Brasilia... collegit, partim descripsit; alias a Maximiliano Seren. Principe Widensi... dispositas et illustratas edidit C.F.Ph. de Martius." Stuttgartia: Cotta, 2 vols. |
| 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. |
