Item data
Item Type:
Document
From:
Swartz, Olof Peter
Sent from:
Stockholm, Sweden
To:
Smith, Sir James Edward
Sent to location:
Norwich, Norfolk
Summary:
Has sent parcels for Smith and Sir Joseph Banks with Professor [Jöns Jacob] Berzelius, [(1779-1848)], chemist, who is coming to England. Smith's parcel contains: third volume of "Flora Ind. occidentalis"; "transactions" of the Royal Academy of Sciences from 1809 to 1811; his "Synopsis filicum" for either [William Jackson] Hooker or Smith; and six volumes of "Swedish Botany", a gift of the Academy to the Linnean Society. Hopes Hooker received the letter he sent before he left Europe [abandoned plans for travelling to Ceylon with Sir Robert Brownrigg]. Curious to know how far [Robert] Brown's "Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae" has advanced, hopes to establish an exchange with him. Swedish Academy of Sciences, of which he is now the secretary, is keen to have full set of "Linnean Transactions" and the second part of Brown's "Flora". [Erik] Acharius has published his "Lichenographia universalis" and has still not received any thanks for the collection he sent to the Linnean Society.
[Georg] Wahlenberg's recently published "Flora Lapponica" has doubled the number of plants described in Linnaeus' "Flora Lapponica", it includes 30 plates and a large botanico-geographical map. [Alexander von] Humboldt, von Bruhl and W have proceeded on similar principals and plans for their own works. Asks after progress of "Flora Graeca", "English Botany", and [Dawson] Turner's "Historia fucorum".
Letter date:
1 Jun 1812
Languages:
English
Prev Ref No:
9.19
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/9/94; JES/COR/9/95; JES/COR/9/96. Concern over Acharius' gift to Linnean Society, see JES/COR/9/98 and JES/COR/9/100.
Swartz, O, (1797-1806). "Flora Indiae occidentalis aucta atque illustrata sive descriptiones plantarum in prodromo recensitarum." Erlanga: Palm.
Swartz, O, (1806). "Synopsis filicum earum genera et species systematice complectens, adjectis Lycopodineis et descriptionibus novarum et rariorum specierum ..." Kilia.
Brown, R, (1810). "Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas ... 1802-05... collegit et descripsit..." Londinum: [printer:] Taylor.
Acharius, E, (1810). "Lichenographia universalis ..." Gottinga: Danckwerts.
Wahlenberg, G, (1812). "Flora Lapponica exhibens plantas geographice et botanice consideratas, in Lapponiis Svecicis... nec non Lapponiis Norvegicis scilicet Nordlandia et Finmarkia... itineribus... 1800, 1802, 1807 et 1810..." Berolinum: Taberna Libraria Scholae Realis.
Linnaeus, C, (1737). "Flora Lapponica exhibens plantas Lapponiam crescentes, secundum Systema Sexuale Collectas in Itinere." Amstelaedami: Apud Salomonem Schouten.
Sibthorp, J, (1806-1837). "Flora Graeca", London: Taylor.
Smith, J E, and Sowerby, J, (1790-1814). "English Botany" London.
Turner, D, (1808-1819). "Fuci sive plantarum fucorum generi a botanicis ascriptarum icones descriptiones et historia. - Fuci; or, colored figures and descriptions of the plants referred by botanists to the genus Fucus." London: Arch. |
