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GB-110/JES/COR/14/68
Title
Edmund Davall to James Edward Smith, 12 Great Marlborough Street, London
Letter date
14 Apr 1794
Author(s)
Edmund Davall 1763-1798
Number of Pages
4
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GB-110/JES/COR/14/68 from Edmund Davall to James Edward Smith, 12 Great Marlborough Street, London (14 April 1794)
Metadata for GB-110/JES/COR/14/68 from Edmund Davall to James Edward Smith, 12 Great Marlborough Street, London (14 April 1794) Close
Item data
Item Type:
Document
From:
Davall, Edmund
To:
Smith, Sir James Edward
Sent to location:
London
Summary:
Requests translation of [Dietrich Heinrich] Stoever's "Life of Linnaeus". Responds to Smith's letter of 14 March: suffering from "wretchedly weak" stomach and "violent windy colic"; will send further information on Haller's library; will dry 'Orchis abortiva' and 'Satyrium hircinum' for [Thomas] Woodward; offers to send Smith ripe seed of his 'Morina persica' which looks as though it will flower this year; observes that his 'Cerinthe perennis' he wanted to be figured in Smith's "Spicilegium botanicum" is Haller's 'Cerinthe' in his "Historia & Nomenel". Thrilled by Smith's Botany Bay specimens especially 'Epacris', 'Embothrium', new 'Octandria' genus with fruit-like acorn, and obscure 'Diadelphia'.
Letter date:
14 Apr 1794
Languages:
English
Prev Ref No:
14.175
Additional Information:
| Note type | Note |
|---|---|
| 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. |
| Related Material | For Smith's letter of 14 March 1794, to which this is a reply, see JES/COR/14/67. For Smith's reply of 6 June 1794, see JES/COR/14/70. Stoever, D H, (1792). "Leben des Ritters Carl von Linné : nebst den biographischen Merkwürdigkeiten seines Sohnes, des Professors Carl von Linné und einem vollständigen Verzeichnisse seiner Schriften, deren Ausgaben, Uebersetzungen, Auszüge und Commentare." Hamburg: Hoffmann. Stoever, D H, and Trapp, J (tr.), (1794). "The life of Sir Charles Linnaeus... to which is added, a...list of his works, and a biographical sketch of the life of his son... Translated from the... German by Joseph Trapp." London: White. Smith, J E, (1791-1792). "Spicilegium botanicum, Fasc. I & II." London: [privately]. |
| Additional | Smith replied 6 Jun [1794] |
