Samuel Goodenough to Sir James Edward Smith

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Ref No GB-110/JES/COR/12/100
Title Samuel Goodenough to Sir James Edward Smith
Letter date 21 Feb 1825
Author(s) Samuel Goodenough 1743-1827
Number of Pages 4

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GB-110/JES/COR/12/100 from Samuel Goodenough to Sir James Edward Smith (21 February 1825)

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Item Type: Document
From: Goodenough, Samuel
To: Smith, Sir James Edward
Summary:

Apologises for involving Smith in the misunderstandings over appointing a new Linnean Society Secretary; [James] Bicheno was surprised to hear he had apparently refused the position. Objects to [Edward] Barnard on the grounds that he is too close to [Joseph] Sabine, and if made Secretary he would act as [Alexander] Macleay did by being President in all but name. Goodenough objects to Sabine, his habit of provoking disorder in any Society he joins, as at the Athenaeum, and his ordering a committee to discuss a portrait of Macleay when he had no authority to do so. Had hoped for a Secretary no one objected to to be appointed. Believes Sabine is now the effectual manager of the Linnean Society which many will find unpalatable.

Letter date: 21 Feb 1825
Languages: English
Prev Ref No: 12.183
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Related MaterialFor further discussion by Goodenough of new Linnean Society Secretary see JES/COR/12/95-96; JES/COR/12/98.