From:
Antonio Scarpa
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
28 Mar 1788
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/9/13, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:
Requests copy of Smith's "De Generatione". Does Smith know in what [Peter Simon] Pallas published about discovering the hearing organs of crayfish. Has translated [John] Hunter's "Memoir on the Digestion" [(1728-1793), surgeon], as well received as Hunter's "Animal economy" and work on venereal diseases. Plans to publish third, fourth, and fifth volumes of his own "Annotations Anatomiques" this year.
Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London