James Brodie, Brodiehouse, [Forres, Elginshire], to James Edward Smith

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Ref No GB-110/JES/COR/21/36
Title James Brodie, Brodiehouse, [Forres, Elginshire], to James Edward Smith
Letter date 6 Mar 1809
Author(s) James Brodie 1744-1824
Number of Pages 4

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GB-110/JES/COR/21/36 from James Brodie, Brodiehouse, [Forres, Elginshire], to James Edward Smith (6 March 1809)

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Item Type: Document
From: Brodie, James
Sent from: Forres, Elginshire
To: Smith, Sir James Edward
Summary:

Thanks for 'Jungermanniae' specimens from "that wonderfully promising young naturalist" [William Jackson] Hooker. Recommends Smith avoid anything that will "keep up or awaken the gall [...] of that worthless wasp" [Richard] Salisbury.
Clarifies that his comment about [James] Hoy's 'Ossigrapha' being more like figures of Hoffmann's 'Verrucaria purpurascens' than any other he could find; different from [Dawson] Turner's 'calcarea'. Turner has requested specimens of 'Fucus brodieii'; encloses some for Smith. Sent [Samuel] Goodenough specimens of 'Fucus brodieii' and 'F. lycopodioides'; Goodenough anxious to establish his varities of 'F. tetragonus' and 'F. escutentus'. Received new specimens from [George] Don, expects he will send to Smith as well, listed, with observations: 'Orbus', 'Lychris alpina', 'Myosotis nana' or 'M. lappula', 'Silene alpestre', 'Epilobium montanum', 'Hypericum barbatum', 'Erigerum uniflorum', 'Veronica allionii', 'Viola lutea', 'Hieracium alpinum' or 'H. villosum', and variety of 'Lamium amplixicaule'.

Letter date: 6 Mar 1809
Languages: English
Prev Ref No: 21.63
Additional Information:
Note typeNote
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.