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SOMERVILLE208

From:
Unknown
To:
Unknown
Date:
n.d
Source of text:
unknown
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

SOMERVILLE453

From:
James Mackintosh
To:
Unknown
Date:
n.d
Source of text:
MSM 1 / 168, Dep. c. 371, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

SOMERVILLE454

From:
James Mackintosh
To:
Unknown
Date:
n.d
Source of text:
MSM 1 / 169, Dep. c. 371, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

SOMERVILLE455

From:
James Mackintosh
To:
Unknown
Date:
n.d
Source of text:
MSM 1 / 170, Dep. c. 371, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

SOMERVILLE457

From:
Francois Magendie
To:
Unknown
Date:
n.d
Source of text:
MSM 1 / 172, Dep. c. 371, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

SOMERVILLE459

From:
Mary Somerville
To:
Unknown
Date:
n.d
Source of text:
MSM 2 / 175, Dep. c. 371, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

SOMERVILLE468

From:
Jane Marcet
To:
Unknown
Date:
n.d
Source of text:
MSM 2 / 185, Dep. c. 371, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

SOMERVILLE644

From:
TO LOOK AT
To:
Unknown
Date:
n.d
Source of text:
MSW 2 / 184-187, Dep. c. 372, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

LINNEAN1000

From:
Edmund Davall
To:
Unknown
Date:
[May 1794]
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/14/91, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

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".

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London

LINNEAN1001

From:
Pleasance Smith
To:
Unknown
Date:
1855
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/15, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

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

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London

LINNEAN1101

From:
Sir Thomas Frankland
To:
Unknown
Date:
2 Apr 1821
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/15/64, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

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.

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London

LINNEAN1114

From:
Pleasance Smith
To:
Unknown
Date:
1855
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/15/76, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Note on Mary Watson-Wentworth's grandparents and pedigree.

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London

LINNEAN1140

From:
Pleasance Smith
To:
Unknown
Date:
1855
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/16, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

A title page of Volume 16: Correspondence of Sir James Edward Smith and Mariamne and Thomas Johnes and Andrew Fountaine

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London

LINNEAN1141

From:
Unknown
To:
Unknown
Date:
nd
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/16/1, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Engraving of Jane Johnes, second wife of Thomas Johnes. Inscription in bottom left hand corner reads "Mrs Johnes".

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London

LINNEAN1256

From:
Pleasance Smith
To:
Unknown
Date:
1855
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/17, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

A title page of Volume 17: Correspondence of Sir James Edward Smith and William Roscoe

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London

LINNEAN1257

From:
Unknown
To:
Unknown
Date:
c 1813
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/17/1, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Engraving of medal showing profile of William Roscoe

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London

LINNEAN129

From:
Anna Gurney
To:
Unknown
Date:
[c 1821-1825]
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/AG/20, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

[Translation by Anna Gurney, not dated, references to posthumous publications of Peter Forsskål provide estimate of 1775 for date of original letter]

Death of Professor [Peter] Forsskål [(1732-1763), Swedish naturalist and explorer]; sending his posthumous works "Flora aegyptiaco-arabica" and "Descriptiones animalium" to Linnaeus.

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London

LINNEAN130

From:
Anna Gurney
To:
Unknown
Date:
[c 1821-1825]
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/AG/21, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

[Incomplete translation of letter dated 6 June 1775, by Anna Gurney]

Enclosing list of plants from Sweden which are not listed in "Flora Anglica".

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London

LINNEAN1315

From:
William Roscoe
To:
Unknown
Date:
[1821-1827]
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/17/151, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

According to Linnaean sexual system, with headings "Monandria" and "Diandria".

[Probably from Roscoe's working papers for his "Monandrian plants of the order Scitamineae.." (1828)]

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London

LINNEAN1316

From:
William Roscoe
To:
Unknown
Date:
[1821-1827]
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/17/152, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Sketch drawings in ink and pencil of reproductive organs of 'Canna', 'Maranta', 'Thalia', 'Myrosma', 'Alpinia', 'Zingiber', 'Amomum', 'Costus', 'Kaempferia', 'Curcuma', 'Colebrookia', and 'Gen. nov. au. Bot.'. Labels for 'Phrynium' and 'Philydrum' but no drawings.

[Probably from Roscoe's working papers for his "Monandrian plants of the order Scitamineae.." (1828)]

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London
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