From:
Richard Pulteney
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
1 Feb 1790
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/24/81, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:
Thanks for election as FLS. Isolated from progress of botany, owing to his "out of the way" location, not having a botanical correspondent in London, and inability to buy even old botanical books. Declines Smith's offer to acquire L'Héritier's "sumptuous work" until he is sure of its extent; would like to see the treatise on 'Geranium' mentioned in "Hortus Kewensis" but assumes the "present distracted state of France " will disrupt such publications.
[Smith has briefly noted on recto of second folio extent and cost of a book]
Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London