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GB-110/JES/COR/23/29
Title
Thomas Charles Hope, Glasgow, to James Edward Smith
Letter date
19 Sep 1794
Author(s)
Thomas Charles Hope 1766-1844
Number of Pages
8
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GB-110/JES/COR/23/29 from Thomas Charles Hope, Glasgow, to James Edward Smith (19 September 1794)
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Item Type:
Document
From:
Hope, Thomas Charles
Sent from:
Glasgow
To:
Smith, Sir James Edward
Summary:
Recently met Smith's German friends [Caspar von] Voght, Wattenbach, and Smeisser; disappointed that the latter has already claimed discovery of new species of earth in the spar from Strontian in two publications; long statement of his own claims to its discovery. Informed that [William] Withering is to publish new edition of his "Botanical arrangement", will supply him with Scottish plants. Need for a new and enlarged edition of "Flora Scotia", now that Lightfoot's is becoming scarce, and [James[ Dickson has enabled a cryptogamic addition. Asks Smith's opinion of [Joseph] Trapp's proposed translation of [Dietrich Heinrich] Stoever's "Life of Linnaeus".
Letter date:
19 Sep 1794
Languages:
English
Prev Ref No:
23.57
Additional Information:
| Note type | Note |
|---|---|
| Additional | Smith replied 24 [Sep 1794] |
| 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 | For Schmeissel's "acquittal", see Hope's letter of November 1794, JES/COR/23/30. Withering, W, (1796). "An arrangement of British plants; according to the latest improvements of the Linnean system... Third edition..." Birmingham: [privately]. Lightfoot, J, (1777). "Flora Scotica" London: B. White. Stoever, D H, and Trapp, J (tr.), (1794). "The life of Sir Charles Linnaeus... to which is added, a...list of his works, and a biographical sketch of the life of his son... Translated from the... German by Joseph Trapp." London: White. |
