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From:
Claude-Julien Bredin
To:
André-Marie Ampère
Date:
24 juin 1814
Source of text:
Correspondance du Grand Ampère (Paris: 1936), p. 478.
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La Correspondance d’André-Marie Ampère
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Smith's candidature for Botany Professorship at Cambridge University. [Richard] Relhan has enquired after a report that [Martyn] is resigning in Smith's favour. Smith right in gaining support from outside Cambridge. Discusses process of Cambridge elections and reiterates Dr [Richard] Walker's [(1679-1764) founder of Cambridge Botanic Garden] provision in his gift of the lectureship that a foreigner may be elected if sufficiently qualified.