Item data
Item Type:
Document
From:
Swartz, Olof Peter
Sent from:
Stockholm, Sweden
To:
Smith, Sir James Edward
Summary:
Believes his letter to Smith of July 1798 and parcel to Sir Joseph Banks have been lost, contents included: latest parts of "Acta" [of Swedish Academy of Scienes], including Smith's paper on 'Westringia'; copies of Smith's dissertation on 'Plukenetia' from "Acta Soc. Upsaliens" vol 6; and a paper of his in same volume on 'Epindendrium'. Hope Smith received the West Indies plants and cryptogamic plants sent with his letter of October [1798]. Sends paper on 'Ehrharta' for "Linnean Transactions", further notes on it. Informed by [Adam] Afzelius that Smith is finishing "Flora Britannica". The printing of his "Flora Indiae occidentalis" has been delayed by the war. Has attended to ['Anthesteria'] in a similar way to 'Ehrharta'. Asks Smith's opinion of his work on 'Epidendrum', further notes on it.
Long postscript discussing specimens of a New Holland genus in the 'Gynandria' class Smith sent him in 1795 and provisionally named "nov genus orchidearum no 2", believes it is of the genus 'Orchid.' and has written on it in the "new journal of botany" published by [Heinrich Adolph] Schrader in Gottingen. Queries plants in Smith's "Tentamen botanicum de filicum generibus dorsiferarum", including: 'Onoclea', 'Osmunda spicant', 'Acrostichum septentrionale', and 'Davallia falcata'. Has two new species for 'Villaria', they are published in second volume of "Neue Schriften des Gesellschaft Naturforschende freunde in Berlin". Has been working for a long time on the 'Gynandrous' genera and order 'Orchid.', confident of finding a firm character.
Letter date:
4 Jul 1799
Languages:
English
Prev Ref No:
9.171
Additional Information:
| Note type | Note |
|---|
| Additional | Smith replied 10 Feb 1800 |
| Related Material | Swartz, O, 'The Botanical History of the Genus Ehrharta', "Transactions of the Linnean Society of London", 1802 6(1), pp.40-64.
Swartz, O. 'The botanical history of the genus Ehrharta.' Read 7/1/1800. With a small pen and ink drawing.
Smith, J E, (1800-1804). "Flora Britannica" London: Davis.
Swartz, O, (1797-1806). "Flora Indiae occidentalis aucta atque illustrata sive descriptiones plantarum in prodromo recensitarum." Erlanga: Palm.
Smith, J E, (1793). "Tentamen botanicum de filicum generibus dorsiferarum." Turin: Briolo. |
| 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. |
