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From:
unknown
To:
Secretary of the Royal Society
Date:
29 August 1790
Source of text:
MM/3/98, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Mary Watson- Wentworth
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
7 Aug 1790
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/15/92, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Apologises for any trouble Smith had with her style and titles in dedicating his book to her ["Icones pictae plantarum rariorum.."]. Dr Pictairn and [James] Lee visited yesterday. Asks if [Richard] Salisbury remembers seeing blue lily in flower on visit of five years ago and what sort of leaves and bulb it had.

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London
From:
Richard Pulteney
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
3 Aug 1790
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/24/87, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Praises Gaetner's book [De fructibus et seminibus plantarum (1788-1805)], but feels "somewhat repugnant" to any attempt of forming a system on his principles. Thanks for attempts of Smith and others for their praise of his book ["Sketches of the progress of botany" (1790)] but concedes it will be of interest only to curiosity of young botanists and men of general reading.

Requests remainder of L'Héritier's works as they appear in Britain though fears revolutions and politics of France will hinder the author. Requests copy of Gmelin's edition of "Systema naturae". Hopes [Aylmer Bourke] Lambert is not idle in Ireland. Surprised that [John] Lightfoot and others should have missed so many Scottish plants now published by [James] Dickson in his second fasciculus [of "Plantarum cryptogamicarum Britanniae" (1785-1801)]. Dr Patrick Browne has given Lambert a manuscript on Jamaican plants, suspects it is of little worth. Apologises for corresponding with Smith on "such unequal terms".

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London
From:
Antonio José Cavanilles
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
26 Aug 1790
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/3/39, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

'Passiflora biflora'; new plants from Peru and Mexico; sends seed for determination. ["Pallasia, J.E.S."].

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London
From:
Charles Louis L'Héritier de Brutelle
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
9 Aug 1790
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/5/61, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Payment for books, etc.

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London