From:
Catherine Lambert
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
6 Nov 1801
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/6/27, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:
Death of [Richard] Pulteney, "seiz'd with a pleurisy which terminated his life in a few days". [Aylmer Bourke] Lambert's grief. Sorry to hear of Smith's ill health. Pulteney's museum left to Linnean Society but his library to be sold. Grosvenor Street house still not finished.
Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London