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From:
Aylmer Bourke Lambert
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
21 Dec 1789
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/6/19, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Shortly leaving for Connaught [Connacht, Ireland], hopes to be more successful with his natural history researches than on his last visit. Asks after a "Flora Hibernica" he believes he heard of in London. Extract from unnamed book recently published in Ireland on discovery of elk antlers and skeleton in 1783 on the "sea lands of the Bishop of Dromore". Encloses drawing [not extant] of a "Borer" insect causing damage to West Indies sugar canes as the Hessian fly does in America, sent larvae to [Thomas] Marsham.

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