From:
William Bingley
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
23 Dec 1801
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/20/93, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:
Sends specimen pages of the manuscript for his new 4 volume work on Natural History, for Smith's opinion; the "tribunal of the public is a somewhat awful one to young writers". The arrangements principally adopted from Gmelin's ["Systema naturae"], [George] Shaw's "General Zoology", and [John] Latham's "Synopsis [of birds]"
Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London