From:
Alexis F. Orloff
To:
William Herschel
Date:
[1 October 1821]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.207
Summary:
Would like to know when he can call on the Herschels.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Would like to know when he can call on the Herschels.
Received Smith's letter of January 1818. Requests Smith's advice and determination on enclosed plants, since Smith is "unanimously considered the prince of botanists and the world's oracle on matters botanical"; has not added any cryptogamic plants, considering it impossible to add anything to Smith's already complete collection, but includes a catalogue of Germany's mosses.
Has sought Robert Brown's "Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae" in vain, and is told the author has suppressed it. Both he and Dr [Carl Bernhard von] Trinius [(1778-1844)], author of "Fundamenta Agrostopraphiae", think Smith's 'Alopecurus alpinus' is interesting; requests specimens.