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

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Ref No GB-110/JES/COR/18/128
Title Thomas Jenkinson Woodward, Walcot Hall, [Diss, Norfolk], to James Edward Smith, Surry Street, Norwich, [Norfolk]
Letter date 2 Jan 1811
Author(s) Thomas Jenkinson Woodward 1745-1820
Number of Pages 4

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GB-110/JES/COR/18/128 from Thomas Jenkinson Woodward, Walcot Hall, [Diss, Norfolk], to James Edward Smith, Surry Street, Norwich, [Norfolk] (2 January 1811)

Metadata for GB-110/JES/COR/18/128 from Thomas Jenkinson Woodward, Walcot Hall, [Diss, Norfolk], to James Edward Smith, Surry Street, Norwich, [Norfolk] (2 January 1811) Close

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

Replies to Smith's letter of 15 December [1810]. Seldom sees [Dawson] Turner since leaving Bungay, [Suffolk]; has made observations on Turner's 'Fucus simpliciusculus' and its resemblance to his 'Ulva decorticata'; notes. Comments that Turner's work ["Fucus sive plantarum fucorum"] seems to relax as it approaches its end; a number has not come out for two months; criticises its unpleasant arrangement.
"Most severe loss" to Linnean Society and students of natural history all over the world in death [Jonas] Dryander; repsumes [Robert] Brown will succeed him at Sir Joseph Banks'. Death of Windham and the loss to residents of Earsham, [Norfolk]; obituaries.
[Letter incomplete: lower third of second folio cropped, presumed destroyed]

Letter date: 2 Jan 1811
Languages: English
Prev Ref No: 18.261
Additional Information:
Note typeNote
AdditionalSmith replied 8 Feb [1811]
Related MaterialTurner, D, (1808-1819). "Fuci sive plantarum fucorum generi a botanicis ascriptarum icones descriptiones et historia. - Fuci; or, colored figures and descriptions of the plants referred by botanists to the genus Fucus." London: Arch.