Item data
Item Type:
Document
From:
Roscoe, William
Sent from:
London
To:
Smith, Sir James Edward
Sent to location:
Norwich, Norfolk
Summary:
Greatly pleased to meet Corrêa today at [Robert] Brown's but unsure whether he intends to visit Smith at Norwich even though Corrêa is to stay much longer than he expected. Had a "stout tug" with Brown on 'Scitamineae', particularly 'Thalia', but could not decide whether [Edward] Rudge's plants should be united with 'Maranta', 'Thalia', or form a new genus; discusses the new genus, 'Calathea', formed from 'Maranta casupo' Jacquin "Fragmenta [botanica]" in [Georg Friedrich Wilhelm] Meyer's new "[Primitiae] florae Essequeboensis".
Informed by Fanny Blackwell that her mother, Mrs Blackwell, is kept alive only by use of blisters; doubts her recovery. Lady [Anne Margaret] Anson's [(1779-1843)] daughter, Georgiana, has very ill but past the worst. Thanks the Smiths for their hospitality at Norwich.
Letter date:
10 Feb 1821
Languages:
English
Prev Ref No:
17.256
Additional Information:
| Note type | Note |
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| Related Material | Jacquin, N J F v, (1809). "Fragmenta botanica figuris coloratis illustrata, ab anno 1800 ad annum 1809 ... edita." Viennae: Austriae, Schmidt.
Meyer, G F W, (1818). "Primitiae florae Essequeboensis adjectis descriptionibus centum circiter stirpium novarum observationibusque criticis..." Gottinga: Dieterich. |
| 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. |
