James Edward Smith, Norwich, [Norfolk], to James De Carle Sowerby, 2 Mead Place, Lambeth, London

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Ref No GB-110/JES/JS/20
Title James Edward Smith, Norwich, [Norfolk], to James De Carle Sowerby, 2 Mead Place, Lambeth, London
Letter date 10 Oct 1824
Author(s) Sir James Edward Smith 1759-1828
Number of Pages 2

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GB-110/JES/JS/20 from James Edward Smith, Norwich, [Norfolk], to James De Carle Sowerby, 2 Mead Place, Lambeth, London (10 October 1824)

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Item Type: Document
From: Smith, Sir James Edward
Sent from: Norwich, Norfolk
To: Sowerby, James De Carle
Sent to location: London
Summary:

Returns plates [for "Flora Graeca"] with his approval; unfortunate accident with drawing of 'Reseda alba', though it is only the first accident of the kind. Sowerby's name engraver is a "precious blockhead", wishes him to copy only what he writes. Instructions on use of capital letters.
Uncertain what sort of zoologists Sowerby is working with, "but most of them now are doing all they can to corrupt the science, splitting & subdividing without science or learning"; laments the mischief caused at the British Museum by [William Elford] Leach, "his labours [...] are only a monument of his insanity". Discusses 'Patella craniolaris' of Linnaeus. His late complaint of cholera "quite gone". Sends 10 drawings, 476-485.

Letter date: 10 Oct 1824
Languages: English