Jacob Bigelow, Boston, [Massachusetts], to Sir James Edward Smith

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Ref No GB-110/JES/COR/20/83
Title Jacob Bigelow, Boston, [Massachusetts], to Sir James Edward Smith
Letter date 10 Mar 1821
Author(s) Jacob Bigelow 1787-1879
Number of Pages 2

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GB-110/JES/COR/20/83 from Jacob Bigelow, Boston, [Massachusetts], to Sir James Edward Smith (10 March 1821)

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Item Type: Document
From: Bigelow, Jacob
Sent from: Boston, Massachusetts
To: Smith, Sir James Edward
Summary:

Sends concluding numbers of his "Medical Botany"; apologises for the quality of the engravings, a consequence of the "low state of the arts" in USA; engraved in aquatint and printed in colours. Thanks for naming a genus in his honour ['Bigelowia']; unknown to him until supplement of Rees' "Cyclopedia" was reprinted here; recently obtained specimen of a new 'B. pubescens' from Mr Nuttall of Louisiana; [Jean Louis Marie] Poiret [(1755-1834), botanist] has named the genus 'Forrestiera'.

Letter date: 10 Mar 1821
Languages: English
Prev Ref No: 20.132
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Finding AidsDawson, W R (1934). "Catalogue of the manuscripts in the Library of The Linnean Society - Part I. The Smith papers: The correspondence and miscellaneous papers of Sir James Edward Smith", London: Linnean Society.
Related MaterialBigelow, J, (1817-1820). "American medical botany" Boston: Cummings. Rees, A (comp.) et al, (1819-1820). "The cyclopædia, or, universal dictionary of arts, sciences, and literature." London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown.
AdditionalSmith replied 30 May [1821]