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GB-110/JES/COR/18/111
Title
Thomas Jenkinson Woodward, Bungay, [Suffolk], to James Edward Smith
Letter date
26 Sep 1797
Author(s)
Thomas Jenkinson Woodward 1745-1820
Number of Pages
3
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GB-110/JES/COR/18/111 from Thomas Jenkinson Woodward, Bungay, [Suffolk], to James Edward Smith (26 September 1797)
Metadata for GB-110/JES/COR/18/111 from Thomas Jenkinson Woodward, Bungay, [Suffolk], to James Edward Smith (26 September 1797) Close
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Item Type:
Document
From:
Woodward, Thomas Jenkinson
Sent from:
Bungay, Suffolk
To:
Smith, Sir James Edward
Summary:
Encloses certificate proposing Lord St John as FLS. Received visit from [Thomas] Velley; discussed his and [Samuel] Goodenough's joint paper on 'Fucus'. Praises second fasciculus of [John] Stackhouse's ["Nereis Britannica"], but criticises his plan to form several genera based on microscopic observations, as Hedwig did with mosses, as being too "minute & intricate for general observers"; his own proposed criteria for separating 'Fucus' genera. Chases up copies of his and Goodenough's paper and [James] Sowerby's "Fungi".
Letter date:
26 Sep 1797
Languages:
English
Prev Ref No:
18.228
Additional Information:
| Note type | Note |
|---|---|
| Related Material | Goodenough, S, and Woodward, T J, 'Observations on the British Fuci, with particular Descriptions of each Species', "Transactions of the Linnean Society of London", 1797 3(1), pp.84-235. Stackhouse, J, (1795-1801). "Nereis Britannica; continens species omnes fucorum in insulis Britannicis crescentium: descriptone latina et Anglica... containing all species of fuci... (An appendix, containing species recently delineated...)" Bathonia: [privately]. Sowerby, J, (1797-1809). "Coloured figures of English fungi or mushrooms ..." London: [printer:] J. Davis. Hedwig, J, (1787-1797). "Descriptio et adumbratio microscopico-analytica muscorum frondosorum nec non aliorum vegetantium e classe cryptogamica Linnaei novorum dubiisque vexatorum." Lipsia: Mullerianus. |
| Additional | Smith replied 2 Oct [1797] |
