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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
William Flexman
Date:
3 May 1818
Source of text:
Bence Jones (1870a), 1: 284-6
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Smith's candidature for Botany Professorship at Cambridge University. Believes all hope of future success destroyed [with Smith being turned down for professorship], fears it will reflect badly on the university. Asks Smith to recommend Sedgewick to Sir Joseph [Banks] as best candidate for the professorship.