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GB-110/JES/COR/10/72
Title
Benjamin Waterhouse, Cambridge, [Massachusetts], to James Edward Smith
Letter date
24 Jul 1811
Author(s)
Benjamin Waterhouse 1754-1846
Number of Pages
2
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GB-110/JES/COR/10/72 from Benjamin Waterhouse, Cambridge, [Massachusetts], to James Edward Smith (24 July 1811)
Metadata for GB-110/JES/COR/10/72 from Benjamin Waterhouse, Cambridge, [Massachusetts], to James Edward Smith (24 July 1811) Close
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Item Type:
Document
From:
Waterhouse, Benjamin
Sent from:
Cambridge, Massachusetts
To:
Smith, Sir James Edward
Summary:
Encloses a copy of his book "The botanist". Has endeavoured to popularise Linnaeus and botany in America. Relates the difficulties, as first lecturer in natural history in America, of preparing natural history lectures for persons who may not have ever seen any books on the subjects, and justifies the popular tone and inclusion of female botanists. Hopes to be able to send botanical and entomological paintings executed by women. Asks for Smith's critical opinion of his book.
Letter date:
24 Jul 1811
Languages:
English
Prev Ref No:
10.121
Additional Information:
| Note type | Note |
|---|---|
| Related Material | Waterhouse, B, (1811). "The botanist. Being the botanical part of a course of lectures on natural history, delivered in the University at Cambridge [Mass.]; together with a discourse on the principle of vitality." Boston [Mass.]: Buckingham. |
| 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. |
