Sir Thomas Frankland, Thirkleby, [Yorkshire], to Sir James Edward Smith

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Ref No GB-110/JES/COR/15/66
Title Sir Thomas Frankland, Thirkleby, [Yorkshire], to Sir James Edward Smith
Letter date 18 Dec 1821
Author(s) Sir Thomas, 6th baronet Frankland 1750-1831
Number of Pages 2

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GB-110/JES/COR/15/66 from Sir Thomas Frankland, Thirkleby, [Yorkshire], to Sir James Edward Smith (18 December 1821)

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Item Type: Document
From: Frankland, Sir Thomas
Sent from: Thirkleby, Yorkshire
To: Smith, Sir James Edward
Summary:

Read [Thomas] Rackett's "Linnean Transactions" paper on red viper ['Observations on a Viper found in Cranborne Chace, Dorsetshire' (1819)] and recalls a memorandum he gave Sir Joseph Banks 30 years ago on how as a boy, five miles from Newbury, [Berkshire], he saw "a small serpent with a red belly" the length of slow worm bite a greyhound, which survived but had an extremely swollen neck in morning. Considered it to be a sort of slow worm and suggested the name 'Coluber chersea', the memorandum will be in Banks' loose notices.

Letter date: 18 Dec 1821
Languages: English
Prev Ref No: 15.124
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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 MaterialRackett, T, 'Observations on a Viper found in Cranborne Chace, Dorsetshire', "Transactions of the Linnean Society of London", 1819 12(2), pp.349-350.