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Ref No
GB-110/JES/COR/21/17
Title
John Brand to James Edward Smith, 12 Great Marlborough Street, Oxford Road, London
Letter date
[8 Apr] 1794
Author(s)
John Brand 1743-1808
Number of Pages
4
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GB-110/JES/COR/21/17 from John Brand to James Edward Smith, 12 Great Marlborough Street, Oxford Road, London (8 April 1794)
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Item data
Item Type:
Document
From:
Brand, John
To:
Smith, Sir James Edward
Sent to location:
London
Summary:
Thanks for Smith's advice [on sale of copies of Brand's "Amoenitates Academicae" translation and manuscript of second volume]; he was only offered 13 guineas so intends to offer it in London. Details of the second volume, which includes: essay on hybrid plants; two abridged dissertations of Koebrenter on 'Lychni cuculoalus' and 'Digitalis hybriae'; a complete Herbatio Anglica from Hudson's 1778 edition, details of arrangement. Requests advice on selling remaining copies of first volume. Has a system for mechanically arranging species of complicated genera by the shortest character of a species; believes some of the genera in "Systema Naturae" were arranged by a similar system.
Letter date:
[8 Apr] 1794
Languages:
English
Prev Ref No:
21.37
Additional Information:
| Note type | Note |
|---|---|
| Additional | Smith replied 9 May [1794] |
| Related Material | For description and example of Brand's system, see his letter of 6 June 1794, JES/COR/21/19. Linnaeus, C, and Brand, J, (tr.), (1781). "Select dissertations from the Amoenitates Academicae, a supplement to Mr Stillingfleet's tracts relating to natural history ... Volume 1." London: G. Robinson & J. Robson. |
| Finding Aids | Dawson, 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. |
