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GB-110/JES/COR/18/8
Title
Thomas Jenkinson Woodward, Bungay, [Suffolk], to James Edward Smith, 10 Great Windmill Street, Haymarket, [London]
Letter date
27 Jan 1784
Author(s)
Thomas Jenkinson Woodward 1745-1820
Number of Pages
4
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GB-110/JES/COR/18/8 from Thomas Jenkinson Woodward, Bungay, [Suffolk], to James Edward Smith, 10 Great Windmill Street, Haymarket, [London] (27 January 1784)
Metadata for GB-110/JES/COR/18/8 from Thomas Jenkinson Woodward, Bungay, [Suffolk], to James Edward Smith, 10 Great Windmill Street, Haymarket, [London] (27 January 1784) Close
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Item Type:
Document
From:
Woodward, Thomas Jenkinson
Sent from:
Bungay, Suffolk
To:
Smith, Sir James Edward
Sent to location:
London
Summary:
Thanks for the "Monachologia", the truth in which must have "extremely enraged" the gentry concerned; reactions of [John] Pitchford, [James] Crowe, and [Robert] Stone [(c 1751-1829), botanist]. [James] Dickson's work on 'Cryptogams' progressing; Sir Joseph Banks is engraving the plates for him; 'Lycoperdon phalloides' is to be included; thinks 'Lycoperdon coliforme' should be; [William] Withering's reasons for not figuring it in his own cryptogamic plant catalogue. Withering thanks Smith for his paper, he knew of Smith from Dr Stokes. Severe frost, which has brought out a great variety of wild fowl, identified with [Thomas] Pennant. New fasciculus published by [Pierre Marie Auguste] Broussonet.
Letter date:
27 Jan 1784
Languages:
English
Prev Ref No:
18.19
Additional Information:
Note type | Note |
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Additional | Smith replied 20 Apr [1784] |
Related Material | For Smith's reply of 20 April 1784, see JES/COR/18/10. Dickson, J, (1785-1801). "Fasciculus plantarum cryptogamicarum Britanniae." Londinum: [privately]. |