Item data
Item Type:
Document
From:
Smith, Sir James Edward
Sent from:
Norwich, Norfolk
To:
Cullum, Sir Thomas Gery
Sent to location:
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
Summary:
Delighted to hear of Lady Cullum's successful operation. Sending seeds from Paris to [Nathaniel Shirley] Hodson [(fl 1800s-1830s), founder of Bury botanic garden] but will not subscribe to the garden. Discusses the confusion between 'Atropa belladonna' and 'Datura' in second edition of [John] Ray's "Synopsis" caused by repetition of an error by Dillenius. Confirms he gathered 'Dianthus virgineus' on Mount Cenis exactly like in "Botanical Magazine" t.1740. Unable to accept Cullum's invitation to Bury. Last saw Sir Joseph Banks a month before he died and he was "quite easy about the event, which he knew could not be far distant". Received letter from Sir Thomas Gage from Castel a Mare, near Naples, they are in "perfect safety, though living in the midst of a revolution". Mrs [Catherine] Lambert not better since moving into the country.
Letter date:
31 Aug 1820
Languages:
English
Prev Ref No:
13.125
Additional Information:
| Note type | Note |
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| Related Material | For Cullum's letter of 27 August 1820, to which this is a reply, see JES/COR/13/66.
Ray, J, (1690). "Synopsis methodica stirpium Britannicarum, in qua tum notae generum characteristicae traduntur, tum species singulae breviter describuntur ... (Emendanda in catalogo plantarum Angliae)." Londini: prostant apud Sam Smith. |
