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GB-110/JES/COR/17/91
Title
William Roscoe, Liverpool, [Lancashire], to James Edward Smith, at Mrs Wiggin's, Craven Hill, Bayswater, [London]
Letter date
27 Jun 1814
Author(s)
William Roscoe 1753-1831
Number of Pages
4
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GB-110/JES/COR/17/91 from William Roscoe, Liverpool, [Lancashire], to James Edward Smith, at Mrs Wiggin's, Craven Hill, Bayswater, [London] (27 June 1814)
Metadata for GB-110/JES/COR/17/91 from William Roscoe, Liverpool, [Lancashire], to James Edward Smith, at Mrs Wiggin's, Craven Hill, Bayswater, [London] (27 June 1814) Close
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Item Type:
Document
From:
Roscoe, William
Sent from:
Liverpool, Lancashire
To:
Smith, Sir James Edward
Sent to location:
London
Summary:
Hopeful for Smith's Cambridge candidature [for botany professorship]; discusses possible impediment of Smith not belonging to the university and concludes his success will have a "favourable effect on the interests of science in general". Before it is printed asks Smith to review his paper critiquing [William] Roxburgh's paper on 'Scitamineae' in "Asiatic Researches"; unsure whether to omit descriptions of new genera from Lord [Edward Smith-]Stanley's "[Chinese] drawings". Resigned to not seeing Smith in Liverpool this summer.
Letter date:
27 Jun 1814
Languages:
English
Prev Ref No:
17.183
Additional Information:
| Note type | Note |
|---|---|
| Additional | Smith replied 5 Jul [1814] |
| Related Material | For Smith's reply of 5 July 1814, see JES/COR/17/92. Roscoe, W, 'Remarks on Dr. Roxburgh's Description of the Monandrous Plants of India; in a Letter to the President', "Transactions of the Linnean Society of London", 1816 11(2), pp.270-282. |
| 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. |
