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Ref No
GB-110/JES/COR/14/7
Title
Edmund Davall, Orbe, Canton de Berne, [Switzerland], to James Edward Smith, 12 Great Marlborough Street, London
Letter date
22 May 1789
Author(s)
Edmund Davall 1763-1798
Number of Pages
4
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GB-110/JES/COR/14/7 from Edmund Davall, Orbe, Canton de Berne, [Switzerland], to James Edward Smith, 12 Great Marlborough Street, London (22 May 1789)
Metadata for GB-110/JES/COR/14/7 from Edmund Davall, Orbe, Canton de Berne, [Switzerland], to James Edward Smith, 12 Great Marlborough Street, London (22 May 1789) Close
Item data
Item Type:
Document
From:
Davall, Edmund
Sent from:
Orbe, Switzerland
To:
Smith, Sir James Edward
Sent to location:
London
Summary:
Sending a hurriedly prepared package of plants including 'Cistus' and 'Carex tomenstosa'. An error in 'Spartium'. Sends box of cryptogamia for [James] Dickson from Ducros. Visiting convent at top of St Bernard in August, said to be the most elevated habitation known and higher than plain of Mount Cenis. Forgot to pack 'Valeriana montana' and 'Crocus vernus'.
Letter date:
22 May 1789
Languages:
English
Prev Ref No:
14.11
Additional Information:
| Note type | Note |
|---|---|
| Additional | Smith replied 2 Jul [1789] |
| Related Material | For Smith's reply of 2 July 1789, including observations on plants sent, see JES/COR/14/8. For observations by Davall on plants sent, see letter of 24 November 1789, JES/COR/14/12; letter of 11 February 1791, JES/COR/14/29. |
| Finding Aids | Dawson, W R, (1934). "Catalogue of the manuscripts in the Library of The Linnean Society - Part I. The Smith papers: The correspondence and miscellaneous papers of Sir James Edward Smith", London: Linnean Society. |
