Sir Thomas Gery Cullum, Bury [St Edmunds, Suffolk], to James Edward Smith, 12 Great Marlborough Street, London

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Ref No GB-110/JES/COR/13/2
Title Sir Thomas Gery Cullum, Bury [St Edmunds, Suffolk], to James Edward Smith, 12 Great Marlborough Street, London
Letter date 29 Dec 1790
Author(s) Sir Thomas Gery, 7th baronet Cullum 1741-1831
Number of Pages 4

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GB-110/JES/COR/13/2 from Sir Thomas Gery Cullum, Bury [St Edmunds, Suffolk], to James Edward Smith, 12 Great Marlborough Street, London (29 December 1790)

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Item Type: Document
From: Cullum, Sir Thomas Gery
Sent from: Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
To: Smith, Sir James Edward
Sent to location: London
Summary:

Recently suffered recurrence of his old complaint affecting his teeth. Sorry Smith did not call on him in Bury on his way to Norfolk. Spent two days in Bungay, [Suffolk], with [Thomas] Woodward: weather bad but saw living species of 'Orobanche ramosa' growing with 'Cannabis sativa' at Meltingham, offers specimen; collected specimen of 'Pyrola rotundifolia' on Bradley Common near Gorleston, growing with 'Salix caprea', 'Sphagnum palustre', 'Hydrocotyle vulgaris', and 'Valeriana dioica'; could not find 'Gentiana pneumonanthe' from his late brother's [Sir John Cullum, 6th baronet (1733-1785)] habitat near Lowestoft church due to drainage of the wet common and enclosures.
Recommends [James] Sowerby do new drawings for Smith's new edition of "Flora Lapponica", and that the frontispiece be an engraving of Sir Joseph Banks' portrait of Linnaeus; hopes that the frontispiece of the new proposed edition of "Historis muscorum" will be an engraving of Dillenius from the Oxford portrait. Requests Smith's assistance in finding London lodgings. Publications: asks Smith's opinion of last fasciculus of "Flora Danica"; sent a poor tenth volume of the "Amunitates" by White [publisher]; wishes for someone to go on with a "Flora Londinensis" or "Flora Anglica" and to see the two new volumes of [John] Latham's "Description of birds".

Letter date: 29 Dec 1790
Languages: English
Prev Ref No: 13.3
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Related MaterialLinnaeus, C, and Smith, J E, (1792). "Flora Lapponica" London: B. White & Son. Dillenius, J J, (1811). "Historia muscorum ... cum appendice et indice synonymorum. [2nd. edition] (excudebat C. Stewart)." Edinburgum: e prelo Academico. Oeder, G C, (1761). "Programma de Opere Flora Danica dicto, jussu regio edendo, adjecta speciminis loco icone plantae. Rubus Chamaemorus." Copenhagen: C. & A. Philibert. Curtis, W, (1777-1798). "Flora Londinensis: or plates and descriptions of such plants as grow wild in the environs of London..." London: [privately]. Hudson, W, (1762). "Flora Anglica, exhibens plantas per regnum Angliae sponte crescentes..." Londinum: [privately]. Latham, J, (1781-1785). "A general synopsis of birds." London: White.
AdditionalSmith replied 1 Feb 1791