From:
Sir Thomas Gery Cullum
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
21 Nov 1814
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/13/33, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:
Reports on letters received from Mrs [Catherine] Lambert concerning [Aylmer Bourke] Lambert's ill health, including violent headaches and insomnia. Cornwallis Hewett to succeed as Downing Professor of Medicine following death of Professor [Busick] Harwood [(1750-1814), anatomist], although uncertain who will succeed to astronomical professorship, believes Hewett's father exhibited his collection of gold, topazes and amethysts to Smith at Cullum's lodgings in King Street, Covent Garden, [London]. Invites [William] Roscoe to call on him should he return from his Norfolk tour via Bury.
Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London