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LINNEAN2377

From:
Richard Pulteney
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
13 Oct 1791
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/24/90, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Thanks for Smith's letter of 5 August [1791] copy of "Linnean Transactions" [vol 1]; wishes such an endeavour was in effect 20 or 30 years ago; praises papers by [Adam] Afzelius, Smith, and [Thomas] Martyn [see RelatedMaterial below]. Declines, for time being, Smith's offer to procure Cavanilles' "Monadelphiae". Thanks Smith for sending work on Syrian plants [Labillardiére's "Icones plantarum Syriae rariorum"].

[Aylmer Bourke] Lambert "strolling about", he has visited Lord Bute's garden and raised 'Zizania aquatica'. Requests Vandelli's "Viridarium Grisley Lusitanicum" and Smith's "Spicilegium botanicum", when published.

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The Linnean Society of London

LINNEAN2378

From:
Richard Pulteney
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
14 Oct 1791
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/24/91, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Sends copies of his "Sketches of the Progress of Botany" for L'Héritier and [William] Curtis.

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The Linnean Society of London

LINNEAN3515

From:
Sir James Edward Smith
To:
Richard Pulteney
Date:
15 Oct 1791
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/MS238/9, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Sends books and account of money owing to him. Keen for Pulteney to publish in "Linnean Transactions". Just returned from a trip to Lord Lewisham's [George Legge] in Kent to see 'Convolvulus speciosus'.

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