Item data
Item Type:
Document
From:
Swartz, Olof Peter
Sent from:
Stockholm, Sweden
To:
Smith, Sir James Edward
Sent to location:
Norwich, Norfolk
Summary:
Hopes Smith soon recovers from his illness, relates his own "sundry pulmonary attacks". Went to Öland island in the summer, amongst the peculiar plants growing there is 'Cistus oelandicus', however the season was too late for scarcer plants such as 'Orchidea', and the rain so continual that little could be done, but obtained some good cryptogamic plants. Also found 'Carex obtusata', sends Smith a specimen of it, it is close to 'Carex pulicaris'. Expects [Georg] Wahlenberg back from the northern regions [an expedition to Lapland], part of his "Carciographia" has been printed in transactions of [Swedish] Academy [of Sciences]. Hopes printing of [Erik] Acharius' "Lichenographia" ["Methodus lichenum"?] will begin soon. Asks if Smith has seen his paper on 'filices' in [Heinrich Adolph] Schrader's "Journal of Botany".
Letter date:
10 Sep 1802
Languages:
English
Prev Ref No:
9.18
Additional Information:
| Note type | Note |
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| 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 | For further discussion of Wahlenberg's expedition, see JES/COR/9/92; JES/COR/9/93; JES/COR/9/95; JES/COR/9/96; JES/COR/9/99.
'Carex obtusata' specimen in Smith herbarium, Savage no. 1441.12.
Acharius, E, (1803). "Methodus qua omnes detectos lichenes secundum organa carpomorpha ad genera, species et varietates redigere atque observationibus illustrare tentavit ..." Stockholmia,: Ulrich.
Swartz, O, (1806). "Synopsis filicum earum genera et species systematice complectens, adjectis Lycopodineis et descriptionibus novarum et rariorum specierum ..." Kilia. |
| Additional | Smith replied 27 Jan 1803 |
