Item data
Item Type:
Document
From:
Smith, Sir James Edward
Sent from:
Norwich, Norfolk
To:
Roscoe, William
Summary:
Describes his return journey from Liverpool, which included a stop at Matlock, [Derbyshire], to climb on Cromford Moor, "often celebrated in "English Botany"", for the first time since 1792; saw many lichens but concludes the dry summer has prevented their fructification. Has informed [Thomas William] Coke about Roscoe's intended visit. The Bishop of Winchester [Brownlow North] delighted by his Cambridge pamphlet; finds it curious that four Oxford bishops approve of his candidacy for Cambridge botany professorship.
Received a "curious work" by Sprengel ["Plantarum Umbelliferarum" (1813)] in which 'Umbelliferae' is reformed as successfully as 'Scitamineae' was by Roscoe; transcribes a Greek quote referring to himself. Encloses packet of New Holland fern seeds. Lists stipulations if the [Liverpool Royal] Institution should invite him to lecture again, would also stay two months to study the Botanic Garden for a long held project on garden plants.
[Letter possibly incomplete: no signature or valediction]
Letter date:
28 Sep 1818
Languages:
English
Prev Ref No:
17.235
Additional Information:
| Note type | Note |
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| 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 | Smith, J E, and Sowerby, J, (1790-1814). "English Botany" London.
Smith, J E, and Monk, J H [1818]. "[A review of] Considerations respecting Cambridge, more particularly relating to its botanical professorship, by Sir James Edward Smith ... [And] A vindication of the University of Cambridge from the reflections of ... Smith ... by ... James Henry Monk".
Sprengel, K P J, (1813). "Plantarum Umbelliferarum denuo disponendarum Prodromus." Halae: printer Hendel.
Roscoe, W, 'A New Arrangement of the Plants of the Monandrian Class usually called Scitamineae', "Transactions of the Linnean Society of London", 1807 8(1), pp.330-357. |
| Publn Note | Smith, P (ed.), (1832). "Memoir and correspondence of... Sir James Edward Smith" London: Longman, vol 2, p.360. |
