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GB-110/JES/COR/12/7 from Samuel Goodenough, Berners Street, London, to James Edward Smith, Norwich, [Norfolk] (7 February 1814)
Metadata for GB-110/JES/COR/12/7 from Samuel Goodenough, Berners Street, London, to James Edward Smith, Norwich, [Norfolk] (7 February 1814) Close
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Thanks for turkey. Had he known would have contributed to Smith's collection for George Don's widow instead of Patrick Neill's. Fears Neill may have endangered a reasonable subscription by aiming to raise enough for a permanent provision for Don's widow.
Many people, including [Amelia Warren] Griffiths [(1768-1858), algologist], [Elizabeth] Hill [(c 1760-1850), algologist], and Miss Hutchins, are complaining that [Dawson] Turner detains Sir Joseph Banks' collection, does not answer queries, or acknowledge or send back specimens. Many also complain that he has not published any numbers [of his "Fucus"] for over a year. Everyone anxious to see the outcome of Buonaparte's invasion of France but are baffled that after losing two armies of 500,000 each he has been allowed to return with a third army; Goodenough thinks Napoleon's case is "unique in the history of man".
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Related Material | Previous letter from Goodenough on subscription for Don's widow see JES/COR/12/6; and letter from Patrick Neill on subscription see JES/COR/7/103. Turner, D, (1808-1819). "Fuci sive plantarum fucorum generi a botanicis ascriptarum icones descriptiones et historia. - Fuci; or, colored figures and descriptions of the plants referred by botanists to the genus Fucus." London: Arch. |