From:
Benjamin Meggot Forster
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
18 Dec 1802
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/ADD/23, The Linnean Society of London
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.
Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London