Edmund Davall, Orbe, Canton de Berne, [Switzerland], to James Edward Smith

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Ref No GB-110/JES/COR/14/33
Title Edmund Davall, Orbe, Canton de Berne, [Switzerland], to James Edward Smith
Letter date 21 May 1791
Author(s) Edmund Davall 1763-1798
Number of Pages 4

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GB-110/JES/COR/14/33 from Edmund Davall, Orbe, Canton de Berne, [Switzerland], to James Edward Smith (21 May 1791)

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Item Type: Document
From: Davall, Edmund
Sent from: Orbe, Switzerland
To: Smith, Sir James Edward
Summary:

Hopes Smith received the box of lichens he sent, intends to send new parcel of plants via Mr Mandrot. Classification of 'Dianthus glaucus' Hudson, [Werner de] Lachenal [(1736-1800)] convinced it is 'Dianthus plumarius', Haller's no 897. Anxious that [Jacob] Wyttenbach's "submissive respect for Haller" may lead him not to translate his manuscript if anything in it derogates Haller. Just received a box of live alpine plants, including 'Hieracium pumilum' and 'Hyoseris foetida'. Responds to points in Smith's letter of 4 January 1791: 'Ribes petraeum' did not grow from cuttings; 'Coronilla minima'; 'Graphalium orientale'; 'Rosa m' from Reynier; 'Saxifraga sedoides'. Sent [Edward] Forster wild, rare specimens in good condition and received in return a "heap of disfigured garden specimens".
[Letter possibly incomplete: no signature or valediction]

Letter date: 21 May 1791
Languages: English
Prev Ref No: 14.82
Additional Information:
Note typeNote
Finding AidsDawson, 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.
Related MaterialFor details of box of lichens see Davall's letter of 30 Apr 1791, JES/COR/14/32. For Smith's letter of 4 January 1791, to which this is a reply, see JES/COR/14/28. For Smith's reply of 6 July 1791 including observations on plants and lichens sent via Mandrot see JES/COR/14/37.