Item data
Item Type:
Document
From:
Williams, George
Sent from:
Oxford, Oxfordshire
To:
Smith, Sir James Edward
Sent to location:
Norwich, Norfolk
Summary:
Visit of Mrs Kett [of Seething Hall, Norfolk] to Oxford Botanic Garden, "it is singular on any occasion to meet a lady who is really conversant with plants". Informed that Smith is "destroying" a new 'Verbascum', hopes that Smith will soon examine this genera but believes Smith better employed working on 'Gramina' and mints ['Mentha']. Informed of Smith giving the name 'Campanula alpina' to his plant 'Campanula rhomboidea', which resembles 'Campanula pulla' in habit and foliage. Accepts Smith's offer to send specimens of each species and variety of mint ['Mentha']. After seeing Smith's new genera in last issue of "Linnean Transactions" suggests that the name 'Danbeia' be given to a new genus in honour of Henry Danvers [Earl of Danby (1573-1644)], founder of Oxford Botanic Garden.
Letter date:
21 Aug 1798
Languages:
English
Prev Ref No:
10.14
Additional Information:
| Note type | Note |
|---|
| Additional | Smith replied 6 Jan 1799 |
| Related Material | Smith, J E, 'The Characters of Twenty New Genera of Plants', "Transactions of the Linnean Society of London", 1798 4(1), pp.213-223. |
| Publn Note | Smith, P (ed.), (1832). "Memoir and correspondence of... Sir James Edward Smith" London: Longman, vol 2, pp.77-78. |
| 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. |
