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GB-110/JES/COR/23/22
Title
Thomas Charles Hope, Edinburgh, to James Edward Smith, at Mr Batty's, 6 Great Marlborough Street, London
Letter date
25 Oct [1784]
Author(s)
Thomas Charles Hope 1766-1844
Number of Pages
4
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GB-110/JES/COR/23/22 from Thomas Charles Hope, Edinburgh, to James Edward Smith, at Mr Batty's, 6 Great Marlborough Street, London (25 October 1784)
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Item Type:
Document
From:
Hope, Thomas Charles
Sent from:
Edinburgh
To:
Smith, Sir James Edward
Sent to location:
London
Summary:
Disappointed to not be seeing Smith in Edinburgh this winter. [William] Younge "storms & rages" at Smith's change of plans. Arrival of frost and snow here disrupting cryptogamic studies; difficulties of studying such plants. Account of Dr Walker's autumn botanical expedition to Ben Lomond, found 'Anthericum calyculatum', 'Dryas octopetala', 'Scutellaria minor' and 'S. galericulata'. Asks if Smith is acquainted with Dr Parsons. Hardy and Ainslie are competitors for a vacant professorship at Oxford or Cambridge.
[Note by John Hope at bottom of verso of second folio] comments on 'Gentiana' root of the shops, said to be root of a cultivated plant.
Letter date:
25 Oct [1784]
Languages:
English
Prev Ref No:
23.45
Additional Information:
| Note type | Note |
|---|---|
| Additional | Smith replied 28 Dec [1784] |
| 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. |
