Item data
Item Type:
Document
From:
Thunberg, Carl Peter
Sent from:
Uppsala, Sweden
To:
Smith, Sir James Edward
Sent to location:
London
Summary:
Thanks for "Linnean Transactions", hopes it will long continue, and plants; will try to sell some items from them though botanists few in number here; passed on enclosures to [Johan] Acrel and [Olof] Swartz. Asks after parcels he sent Smith and [Sir Joseph] Banks in May via English surgeon Griffiths. Few copies of Smith's works can be sold in Sweden but requests some copies.
Compared 'Festuca spaducea', identical to 'Anthoxantum paniculatum', with specimen in Burser's "Herbarium" vol 1 p.46; comment on 'Phalaris oryzoides'; attaches drawing of 'Dianthus virgineus' [Smith annotation: "in Herb."] from "Herbarium" vol 11 p.99.
Intends to send his recently published dissertations, and dried plants. Certain that there are plants in his collections from the Cape [of Good Hope] not in Linnaean herbarium, but until his "Flora capensis" is published difficult establish what Smith may require. Intends to send a paper for "Linnean Transactions" vol 2.
Letter date:
28 Dec 1791
Languages:
Latin
Prev Ref No:
10.48
Additional Information:
| Note type | Note |
|---|
| Additional | Smith replied 23 May 1792 |
| Related Material | Thunberg, C P, and Schultes, J A, (1807-1813). "Flora Capensis, sistens plantas promontorii Bonae Spei Africes, secundum systema sexuale emendatum redactas..." Upsalia: [printer:] Edman.
Thunberg, C P, 'Botanical Observations on the Flora Japonica', "Transactions of the Linnean Society of London", 1794 1(1), pp326-342. |
| 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. |
