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GB-110/JES/COR/21/45
Title
Arthur Bruce, Nicholsons Street, Edinburgh, to James Edward Smith, Norwich, [Norfolk]
Letter date
28 Aug 1797
Author(s)
Arthur Bruce 1726-1805
Number of Pages
4
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GB-110/JES/COR/21/45 from Arthur Bruce, Nicholsons Street, Edinburgh, to James Edward Smith, Norwich, [Norfolk] (28 August 1797)
Metadata for GB-110/JES/COR/21/45 from Arthur Bruce, Nicholsons Street, Edinburgh, to James Edward Smith, Norwich, [Norfolk] (28 August 1797) Close
Item data
Item Type:
Document
From:
Bruce, Arthur
Sent from:
Edinburgh
To:
Smith, Sir James Edward
Sent to location:
Norwich, Norfolk
Summary:
Thanks for Smith's letter of 18 June [1797]; gratified by Smith's acceptance of offer of his herbarium on his death. Recently visited Fife, Dumfermline; account of a gelatinous marine plant. Satisfaction at "Linnean Transactions" and papers on 'Fucus' and 'Carex' in third and second volumes. Encloses specimens from Mrs Roget [extant]. Smith's description of [Nicholas] Gwyn makes him think of "some majestic oak" now mouldering away. All in expectation of Smith's "Flora Britannica". Supposes his Scottish 'Silene amoena' and the Welsh are the same.
Two specimens, labelled by Smith "'Orobus tuberosa' narrow leaved" and "'Valeriana rubra' dwarf".
Letter date:
28 Aug 1797
Languages:
English
Prev Ref No:
21.79
Additional Information:
| Note type | Note |
|---|---|
| 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. |
| Related Material | Goodenough, S, and Woodward, T J, 'Observations on the British Fuci, with particular Descriptions of each Species', "Transactions of the Linnean Society of London", 1797 3(1), pp.84-235. Goodenough, S, 'Observations on the British Species of Carex', "Transactions of the Linnean Society of London", 1794 2(1), pp.126-211. Smith, J E, (1800-1804). "Flora Britannica" London: Davis. |
| Additional | Smith replied 9 Aug 1798 |
