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Ref No
GB-110/JES/COR/11/63
Title
James Edward Smith, Norwich, [Norfolk], to Samuel Goodenough
Letter date
3 Apr 1808
Author(s)
Sir James Edward Smith 1759-1828
Number of Pages
4
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GB-110/JES/COR/11/63 from James Edward Smith, Norwich, [Norfolk], to Samuel Goodenough (3 April 1808)
Metadata for GB-110/JES/COR/11/63 from James Edward Smith, Norwich, [Norfolk], to Samuel Goodenough (3 April 1808) Close
Item data
Item Type:
Document
From:
Smith, Sir James Edward
Sent from:
Norwich, Norfolk
To:
Goodenough, Samuel
Summary:
Has still not received a letter from Goodenough. Wants Goodenough to read his paper on the new genus 'Hookeria', named after William Jackson Hooker, at the Linnean Society and asks that Goodenough overlook the clash with [Richard] Salisbury's 'Hookera', named after [William] Hooker [(1779-1832)], botanical artist for "Paradisus Londinensis", a "man of no knowledge & of even less character". Has found that Salisbury and William Hooker have been stealing copies of Sir Joseph Banks' drawings and publishing them as drawn from Lady Essex's garden. His wife still helpless with a painful rheumatic illness. Intends to be at the Linnean Society on 19 April.
Letter date:
3 Apr 1808
Languages:
English
Prev Ref No:
11.122
Additional Information:
| Note type | Note |
|---|---|
| Publn Note | Smith, P (ed.), (1832). "Memoir and correspondence of... Sir James Edward Smith" London: Longman, vol 1, pp.564-565. |
| Related Material | For further on Salisbury's fabrication of plants from Lady Essex's garden see JES/COR/6/62; JES/COR/6/63; JES/COR/6/68; JES/COR/11/65. For Goodenough's opinion of 'Hookera', see JES/COR/11/64. Smith, J E, 'Characters of Hookeria, a new Genus of Mosses, with Descriptions of Ten Species', "Transactions of the Linnean Society of London", 1808 9(1), pp.272-282. |
| 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. |
