James Edward Smith, Norwich, [Norfolk], to Thomas Jenkinson Woodward, Walcot Hall, near Diss, [Norfolk]

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Ref No GB-110/JES/COR/18/126
Title James Edward Smith, Norwich, [Norfolk], to Thomas Jenkinson Woodward, Walcot Hall, near Diss, [Norfolk]
Letter date 6 Feb 1808
Author(s) Sir James Edward Smith 1759-1828
Number of Pages 4

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GB-110/JES/COR/18/126 from James Edward Smith, Norwich, [Norfolk], to Thomas Jenkinson Woodward, Walcot Hall, near Diss, [Norfolk] (6 February 1808)

Metadata for GB-110/JES/COR/18/126 from James Edward Smith, Norwich, [Norfolk], to Thomas Jenkinson Woodward, Walcot Hall, near Diss, [Norfolk] (6 February 1808) Close

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Item Type: Document
From: Smith, Sir James Edward
Sent from: Norwich, Norfolk
To: Woodward, Thomas Jenkinson
Sent to location: Diss, Norfolk
Summary:

Sends twenty-third and twenty-fourth numbers of "Exotic Botany", completing the work; expects no further numbers. Sends specimens of 'Ophrys corallorhiza' gathered last summer near Edinburgh by Edward John Maughan [(1790-1863), civil servant], he also found 'Buxbaumia aphylla'. The 'Ophrys' is growing in his garden and about to flower, the root smells of 'Epidendrum vanilla'. Sends collection of franks for Sir Thomas Heselrige, including one of [William] Roscoe's. Roscoe's recent pamphlet recommending peace; as his opposition to the slave trade led him to be called a deist expects him to be called an atheist for this one; first edition sold out in several days; the abuse the ministerial papers give it shows their "dread & respect" of it.
Linnean Society well attended but has a lack of papers, he is supplying papers on germination of seeds and British 'Hieracium', with more to follow; it is the way he best likes to merit his situation in the Society. His "Introduction [to Botany"] seems "much liked", hopes it will be useful. Second fasciculus of "Flora Graeca", all the grasses, soon appearing; the sequel of "Flora Britannica" to be his "leading object". Rejoices at [Samuel] Goodenough's elevation [to Bishop of Carlisle]. [James] Crowe's careless will has set all his family at odds.

Letter date: 6 Feb 1808
Languages: English
Prev Ref No: 18.257
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Related MaterialSmith, J E, (1804-1805). "Exotic botany" London: J. Sowerby. Smith, J E, 'An Inquiry into the Structure of Seeds, and especially into the true Nature of that Part called by Gaertner the Vitellus', "Transactions of the Linnean Society of London", 1808 9(1), pp.204-217. Smith, J E, 'Observations respecting several British Species of Hieracium', "Transactions of the Linnean Society of London", 1808 9(1), pp.225-243. Smith, J E, (1807). "An Introduction to Physiological and Systematical Botany." London: Longman. Sibthorp, J, (1806-1837). "Flora Graeca", London: Taylor. Smith, J E, (1800-1804). "Flora Britannica" London: Davis.