Thomas Jenkinson Woodward, Walcot Hall, [Diss, Norfolk], to Sir James Edward Smith, Linnean Society Rooms, Gerard Street, Soho, London

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Ref No GB-110/JES/COR/18/129
Title Thomas Jenkinson Woodward, Walcot Hall, [Diss, Norfolk], to Sir James Edward Smith, Linnean Society Rooms, Gerard Street, Soho, London
Letter date 19 May 1816
Author(s) Thomas Jenkinson Woodward 1745-1820
Number of Pages 4

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GB-110/JES/COR/18/129 from Thomas Jenkinson Woodward, Walcot Hall, [Diss, Norfolk], to Sir James Edward Smith, Linnean Society Rooms, Gerard Street, Soho, London (19 May 1816)

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

Unable to attend Linnean Society anniversary meeting as the situation of the country is such that it is "expedient for every person [...] to be at home to secure their own property"; reports of fires in vicinty of Bury, [Suffolk], "almost all malicious & wilful, from the discontent of the people". Poverty of the smaller farmers means that in every parish there are labourers out of employ and discontented, and rises in price of corn "only serves to irritate the poor". Describes a mob he saw in Norwich, but hopes recent falls in corn prices will quiet things.
[John] Stackhouse to republish his "Nereis Britannica" in which he will attack [Dawson] Turner for a "want of candour" in his own work ["Fucus sive plantarum fucorum"]. Criticises Turner for leaving his work in an unfinished state.

Letter date: 19 May 1816
Languages: English
Prev Ref No: 18.263
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Related MaterialStackhouse, 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]. Turner, 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.