Ottaviano Targioni Tozzetti, Florence, [Italy], to James Edward Smith, 12 Marlborough Street, London

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Ref No GB-110/JES/COR/10/4
Title Ottaviano Targioni Tozzetti, Florence, [Italy], to James Edward Smith, 12 Marlborough Street, London
Letter date 20 Apr 1790
Author(s) Ottaviano Targioni Tozzetti 1755-1829
Number of Pages 4

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GB-110/JES/COR/10/4 from Ottaviano Targioni Tozzetti, Florence, [Italy], to James Edward Smith, 12 Marlborough Street, London (20 April 1790)

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Item Type: Document
From: Tozzetti, Ottaviano Targioni
Sent from: Florence, Italy
To: Smith, Sir James Edward
Sent to location: London
Summary:

Received Smith's letter and Linnean Society diploma. [Gregory] Boraston briefly visited him, has given him a copy of [Pier Antonio] Micheli's [(1679-1737)] 60 plates ["Icones plantarum submarinarum"] for Smith. Brief history of Micheli's work: it was intended for second volume with "Nova Genera", and Tozzetti's father [Giovanni Targioni Tozzetti] attempted to separate the zoophita from the plants after Micheli's death. Plans to publish the unpublished parts, may ask Smith for assitance. Also sending with Boraston his memoir on 'Lathyrus sativus', many additional observations can be made and adds that after Mr Visconti had for some time been fed a small amount of the seeds of it and lost the use of his legs. Visconti eventually died and at his dissection it was discovered he was suffering from advanced synovitis in the joints and his bones had become so soft that they could be cut with a knife.

Letter date: 20 Apr 1790
Languages: French
Prev Ref No: 10.11
Additional Information:
Note typeNote
Related MaterialTozzetti's fears of delay of Micheli's plates, see JES/COR/10/5. Micheli, P A, (1748). "Icones plantarum submarinarum. 60 folio, uncoloured, engraved plates of marine algae." Florence. Micheli, P A, (1729). "Novo plantarum genera juxta Tournefortii methodum disposita ... Adnotationibus, atque observationibus, praecipue fungorum, muscorum affiniumque plantarum sationem, ortum, & incrementum spectantibus, interdum adjectis ..." Florentiae: Typis Bernardi Paperinii.
AdditionalSmith replied 20 Jul [1790]
CopiesEnglish translation available from Linnean Society Library.