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GB-110/JES/COR/9/57
Title
Kurt Sprengel, Halle, [Germany], to James Edward Smith, Norwich, [Norfolk]
Letter date
20 Mar 1810
Author(s)
Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel 1766-1833
Number of Pages
2
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GB-110/JES/COR/9/57 from Kurt Sprengel, Halle, [Germany], to James Edward Smith, Norwich, [Norfolk] (20 March 1810)
Metadata for GB-110/JES/COR/9/57 from Kurt Sprengel, Halle, [Germany], to James Edward Smith, Norwich, [Norfolk] (20 March 1810) Close
Item data
Item Type:
Document
From:
Sprengel, Kurt Polycarp Joachim
Sent from:
Halle, Germany
To:
Smith, Sir James Edward
Sent to location:
Norwich, Norfolk
Summary:
All students of botany here dismayed to be cut off from contact with British scholars. Has dedicated his new edition of Linnaeus' "Philosophia botanica" to the Linnean Society and is sending it via Hornemann of Copenhagen; currently unable to send his "Historia rei herbariae" (1807-1808).
Commends his friend, the son of Hagen of Königsberg, to Smith; wishes he could accompany him to Britain to study the treasures there. Requests news of Smith's studies and [Sir Joseph] Banks' old age.
Letter date:
20 Mar 1810
Languages:
Latin
Prev Ref No:
9.112
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 | Linnaeus, C, and Sprengel, K P J (ed.), (1809). "Philosophia botanica, in qua explicantur fundamenta botanica cum definitionibus partium, exemplis terminorum, observationibus rariorum, adjectis figuris aeneis." Halae ad Salam: Sumtibus Car. Aug. Kummel, 4th ed. Sprengel, K P J, (1808). "Historia rei herbariae." Parisii: Treuttel. |
| Copies | English translation available from Linnean Society Library. |
