Item data
Item Type:
Document
From:
Wade, Walter
Sent from:
Dublin, Ireland
To:
Smith, Sir James Edward
Summary:
Sends copy of his work, intended to "encourage the study of botany" in Ireland; believes is the first systematic account of any branch of natural history in Ireland [probably of his "Catalogus systematicus plantarum [...] Dublinensi" (1794)]; desires Smith's opinion. Delighted by Smith's various publications; hopes Smith long lives "to gratify the botanic amateur"; asks best way to obtain new numbers.
Hopes Smith has seen Andrew Caldwell and presumes he has told Smith of the plans for establishing a botanic garden at Dublin, for which Parliament have already granted £1,700 and £500 per annum, hopes of being superintendent. Collecting material for a "Flora Hibernica"; dreads the cryptogams, though assisted by Dillenius, Michelieux, Schaeffer, and Hedwig; [William] Withering's work a "great labour", but much confusion, and [James] Bolton's "Filices" and "Fungi" good but descriptions do not always correspond with common ferns and mushrooms of this country.
Letter date:
20 Sep 1794
Languages:
English
Prev Ref No:
26.71
Additional Information:
| Note type | Note |
|---|
| Additional | Smith replied 24 Nov [1794] |
| Related Material | Wade, W, (1794). "Catalogus systematicus plantarum indigenarum in comitatu Dublinensi inventarum." Dublinum: Sleater.
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.
Withering, W, (1776). "A botanical arrangement of all the vegetables naturally growing in Great Britain..." Birmingham: Cadel.
Bolton, J, (1785). "Filices Britannicae; an history of the British proper ferns ..." Leeds: Binns.
Bolton, J, (1788). "An history of fungusses growing about Halifax ..." Halifax: [privately]. |
| 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. |
