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From:
Francis Boott
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
20 Jul 1818
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/2/58, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Directions for various parcels for Smith to forward. Reviews [Jacob] Bigelow's "Medical Botany". Invites Smith to visit on his way to Liverpool. Fears he may have been "very presumptuous" with Lady Smith in "thinking so highly of Byron". Planning to ask Sir Joseph Banks to introduce Bigelow as a Fellow of the Royal Society.

Contributor:
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From:
Christiaan Hendrik Persoon
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
18 Jul 1818
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/8/49, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

His affairs; thanks Smith for advice, and begs him to approach Banks.

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From:
Nathaniel Wallich
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
13 Jul 1818
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/10/66, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Parcel of specimens for Smith sent via Captain Williamson, commander of the Larkins. Hopes to send larger collection shortly, including expected Nepalese plants, which he hopes will add to Smith's Nepalese plants received from [Francis] Buchanan. Hopes to send specimens of plants described by Smith in "Exotic Botany" and [Abraham] Rees' "Cyclopedia", including: oaks, 'Orchideae', 'Paris polyphylla', 'Primula', 'Rhododendron', plus other specimens, including: 'Hedychium', 'Andromeda', 'Arbutus', 'Gaultheria', a large number of ferns, 'Ligustrum', 'Fraxinus', 'Gramina', etc. Warns Smith that some of the labels on the first package may be erroneous.

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