Item data
Item Type:
Document
From:
Cullum, Sir Thomas Gery
To:
Smith, Sir James Edward
Sent to location:
Norwich, Norfolk
Summary:
Thanks for copy of Smith's "Introduction to Botany". Reports from his excursion into Yorkshire: wishes Smith had been with him at the "dropping well" at Knaresborough, there were jungermanniae, lichens, and mosses; found 'Inula helerium' and 'Sedum telefitium' in a hedge bank, 'Atropa belladonna' in churchyard near Ferrybridge, Yorkshire, and in hedges near the town, and 'Colchium autumnale' in meadows about Knaresborough. Recounts anecdote in Dr [Thomas] Zouch's [(1737-1815)], prebendary of Durham and FLS, unpublished "Memoir of the life of Dr John Sudbury", dean of Durham in 1661, about the detainment of the cathedral library's copy of [John] Gerard's "Herbal" by Colonel Robert Lilburn; thinks it curious in showing the estimation in which the book was held. Invites the Smiths to visit for the Bury Fair.
Postscript by Lady Cullum repeating Cullum's invitation.
Letter date:
27 Sep 1814
Languages:
English
Prev Ref No:
13.53
Additional Information:
| Note type | Note |
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| Related Material | For Smith's reply of 1 October 1814, see JES/COR/13/29.
Smith, J E, (1814). "An Introduction to Physiological and Systematical Botany." London: Longman, 3rd ed.
Gerard, J, (1597). "The herball or general history of plantes ..." London: John Norton. |
| Publn Note | Smith, P (ed.), (1832). "Memoir and correspondence of... Sir James Edward Smith" London: Longman, vol 1, pp.482-483. |
| Additional | Smith replied 1 Oct [1814] |
