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GB-110/JES/ADD/23
Title
Benjamin Meggot Forster to James Edward Smith
Letter date
18 Dec 1802
Author(s)
Benjamin Meggot Forster 1764-1829
Number of Pages
24
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GB-110/JES/ADD/23 from Benjamin Meggot Forster to James Edward Smith (18 December 1802)
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Item Type:
Document
From:
Forster, Benjamin Meggot
To:
Smith, Sir James Edward
Summary:
Sends observations and remarks on first two volumes of [James Sowerby's] "English Fungi" [extant]; intends to do same for remainder. Asks after Sowerby's "[British] Mineralology", jokes that he will be able to pave a path from Walthamstow to Norwich with the plates. Contemplating publication of new edition of "Plantae Woodfordienses" once Smith has finished "Flora Britannica".
"Remarks on Sowerby's Figures of English Fungi", 21 page manuscript.
Letter date:
18 Dec 1802
Languages:
English
Prev Ref No:
26
Additional Information:
| Note type | Note |
|---|---|
| Finding Aids | Hutt, C M, "List of additional correspondence of Sir James Edward Smith" Linnean Society. |
| Related Material | Sowerby, J, (1797-1809). "Coloured figures of English fungi or mushrooms ..." London: [printer:] J. Davis. Warner, R, (1771). "Plantae Woodfordienses: a catalogue of the more perfect plants growing spontaneously about Woodford in the County of Essex." London: [privately]. Smith, J E, (1800-1804). "Flora Britannica" London: Davis. |
