Item data
Item Type:
Document
From:
Hooker, Sir William Jackson
Sent from:
Glasgow
To:
Smith, Sir James Edward
Sent to location:
Norwich, Norfolk
Summary:
He had applied to [Robert] Maughan [(1769-1844)] for specimens of his 'Salix livida' but found that his herbarium was about to be auctioned for a debt; intends to compare [Georg] Wahlenberg's [(1780-1851)] description to Maughan's herbarium on discovering the purchaser. Asks if Smith has seen [Nicolaus Tomas] Host's [(1761-1834)] "great work" on willows, published at Vienna.
Reiterates that if a new edition of "Flora Scotia" is published, as he expects, offensive references to Smith will be removed. Smith's progress on "English flora". Comments on worth of [Robert Kaye] Greville's work on fungi. Difficulties finding a publisher for his "Exotic flora". Visited [Francis] Hamilton at his home at Lenny; his ill-health and beauties of his lands. [Dawson] Turner averse to his proposed "Species Plantarum" in English.
Letter date:
23 Jun 1822
Languages:
English
Prev Ref No:
23.15
Additional Information:
| Note type | Note |
|---|
| Related Material | Smith, J E, Hooker, W J, and Berkeley, M, (1824-1828). "The English flora", London: Longman.
Greville, R K, (1823-1828). "Scottish cryptogamic flora or Coloured figures and descriptions of cryptogamic plants, belonging chiefly to the order fungi; and intended to serve as a continuation of English Botany." Edinburgh: Maclachlan.
Hooker, W J, (1823-1827). "Exotic flora, containing figures and descriptions of new, rare, or otherwise interesting exotic plants..." Edinburgh: Blackwood. |
| 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. |
| Additional | Smith replied 5 Mar 1823 |
