Item data
Item Type:
Document
From:
Cullum, Sir Thomas Gery
To:
Smith, Sir James Edward
Sent to location:
Norwich, Norfolk
Summary:
Mrs [Catherine] Lambert reports that [Aylmer Bourke] Lambert continues to have restless nights. Interested to see Smith's catalogue of Holkham manuscripts [home of Thomas William Coke], hopes Lady Cullum will be able to see the Raphael Delph at Narford [Hall, Norfolk, home of Andrew Fountaine].
Attended Royal Society anniversary and dinner with Sir Joseph Banks, Bishop of Carlisle [Samuel Goodenough], Mr Lysons , Mr Marsden, [Edward] Rudge, and Mr Raper. Attended Linnean Society meeting; Lambert was in the chair and [William George] Maton also attended but [Alexander] Macleay still recovering from his "violent peripneumony". Concerned by [Thomas] Marsham's removal from Baker Street to Winchmore Hill. Convinced [William] Webb in Cambridge to put himself forward for Linnean Society; [Arthur] Biggs' [(1765-1848), curator of the [Cambridge] Physic Garden, nomination certificate for Associate put up. Asks if Smith has seen [William Elford] Leach's "[Zoological] miscellany"; does not approve of the "frequent new generic names".
Letter date:
25 Dec 1814
Languages:
English
Prev Ref No:
13.66
Additional Information:
| Note type | Note |
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| Related Material | For Smith's letter of 20 December 1814, to which this is a reply see JES/COR/13/34.
Leach, W E, (1814-1817). "The zoological miscellany; being descriptions of new, or interesting animals ... Illustrated ... by R.P. Nodder." London: E. Nodder. |
