From:
Constantine Samuel Rafinesque
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
20 May 1816
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/25/3, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:
Encloses an address [extant]. He has sent his “critical observations on some errors of Pursh” by another conveyance. Death of Dr Bery Barton, a member of the Linnean Society. Collecting a new herbarium, currently has 3000 specimens of 150 species. Hopes to be an occasional correspondent with Smith.
“Circular address on Botany and Zoology; followed by the prospectus of two periodical works: Annals of Nature and Somiology of North America. By C S Rafinesque” [33 pp].
Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London