James Edward Smith, Chelsea, [London], to Thomas Jenkinson Woodward, Bungay, Suffolk

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Ref No GB-110/JES/COR/18/20
Title James Edward Smith, Chelsea, [London], to Thomas Jenkinson Woodward, Bungay, Suffolk
Letter date 19 May 1785
Author(s) Sir James Edward Smith 1759-1828
Number of Pages 4

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GB-110/JES/COR/18/20 from James Edward Smith, Chelsea, [London], to Thomas Jenkinson Woodward, Bungay, Suffolk (19 May 1785)

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Item Type: Document
From: Smith, Sir James Edward
Sent from: London
To: Woodward, Thomas Jenkinson
Sent to location: Bungay, Suffolk
Summary:

Thanks for Woodward's advice in his last letter; will guard his herbarium but give small displays. [William] Withering's polite behaviour in offering not to make use of the botanical information Smith gave him. [John] Lightfoot and Sir Joseph Banks have both offered Smith their herbariums and assistance for his intended "Flora Britannica". Keeping the fossils for the present and will not move the herbarium, but will bring the grasses to Norwich at the end of June with specimens of 'Orthoceras' and 'Anthericum calyculatum'. Jeans has none of Woodward's fossils. Going to Oxford to consult Dillenius' mosses and Rudbeck's "Campi Elysii" volume 1. Found [Robert] Stone's [(c 1751-1829), botanist] ticket to admit him, as Miss Taylor, into the British Museum.

Letter date: 19 May 1785
Languages: English
Prev Ref No: 18.39
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Related MaterialFor Woodward's letter of 24 February 1785, to which this is a reply, see JES/COR/18/18. For Woodward's reply to this letter, see JES/COR/18/21. Smith, J E, (1800-1804). "Flora Britannica" London: Davis. Rudbeck, O, (n.d.). "Campi Elysii liber primus".