Richard Pulteney, Blandford, [Dorset], to James Edward Smith, 12 [Great] Marlborough Street, London

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Ref No GB-110/JES/COR/24/79
Title Richard Pulteney, Blandford, [Dorset], to James Edward Smith, 12 [Great] Marlborough Street, London
Letter date 19 Apr 1789
Author(s) Richard Pulteney 1730-1801
Number of Pages 4

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GB-110/JES/COR/24/79 from Richard Pulteney, Blandford, [Dorset], to James Edward Smith, 12 [Great] Marlborough Street, London (19 April 1789)

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Item Type: Document
From: Pulteney, Richard
Sent from: Blandford, Dorset
To: Smith, Sir James Edward
Sent to location: London
Summary:

Thanks for Smith's letter of 17 March [1789]. Explains the difficulties he has in pursuing botany: too busy with his medical practice to botanise in local area, and too far from London to study exotics, which confines his studies to books, of which he has none.
Informed by [Aylmer Bourke] Lambert of formation of the Linnean Society, thanks Smith for invitation to join and asks to pay his subscription as a sum rather than annually. Thanks for Smith's botanical information, as he no longer has a London botanical correspondent. Had hoped that [Thomas] Marsham's scheme would have "comprehended the whole Fauna", as on plan of "Fauna Suecica". Requests information on Smith's "Plantarum icones".
Signed [Josef Franz] Jacquin's Royal Society nomination certificate; offers to show Jacquin Dorset if his tour of Britain takes him west. Thanks Smith for invitation to view Linnaean collections.

Letter date: 19 Apr 1789
Languages: English
Prev Ref No: 24.145
Additional Information:
Note typeNote
AdditionalSmith replied 25 [Apr 1789]
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.
Related MaterialLinnaeus, C, (1746). "Fauna Suecica sistens animalia sveciae regni: quadrupedia, aves, amphibia, pisces, insecta, vermes, distributa per classes & ordines, genera & species. Cum differentiis specierum, synonymis autorum, nominibus incolarum, locis habitationum, descriptionibus insectorum." Stockholmiae: Sumtu & literis Laurentii Salvii. Smith, J E, and Linnaeus, C, (1789-1791). "Plantarum icones hactenus ineditae, plerumque ad plantas in herbario Linnaeo conservatas delineatae." Londini: Impensis Benj. White et Filii.