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Engraving of Jane Johnes, second wife of Thomas Johnes. Inscription in bottom left hand corner reads "Mrs Johnes".
Engraving of medal showing profile of William Roscoe
Engraving of front elevation and part of the grounds of Allerton Hall, near Liverpool, home of William Roscoe from 1799 to 1816.
Engraving of John Russell's pastel of Smith, c1799, in Robert John Thornton's [(c 1768-1837), physician and writer on botany] "A New Illustration of the Sexual System of Linnaeus".
Small engraving of James Edward Smith aged 4 years, from drawing by T Wolridge.
Newspaper cutting of two side-by-side engravings of Lady Smith at the ages of 16 or 17 and 94 [pencil annotations list the former age as 25 and latter as 100 and that it was taken from the "Graphic, Feb. 24 1877"]
Numbered list of plants sent by George Don in Smith's herbarium
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Transcription of part of letter from [Jacob] Wyttenbach relating his knowledge of sale of Haller's collections and a fireworks display held in Berne the same year costing as much as the collections were sold for, including anecdotes on dispersal of specimens, the younger Haller and Wyttenbach's abandoned proposal to publish new edition of [Albrecht von] Haller's "Historia stirpium indigenarum".
A title page of Volume 15: Correspondence of Sir James Edward Smith with Sir Thomas Frankland, 6th baronet and Mary Watson-Wentworth, marchioness of Rockingham
Collates inconclusive evidence from his nephew, Edward Frankland, when in Dublin, and Duke of Gordon, as to indicators of sex of woodcocks. Two feathers sent by Edward Frankland inclosed [extant].
Two woodcock feathers.
Note on Mary Watson-Wentworth's grandparents and pedigree.
A title page of Volume 16: Correspondence of Sir James Edward Smith and Mariamne and Thomas Johnes and Andrew Fountaine