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From:
Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
20 Mar 1810
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/9/57, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

All students of botany here dismayed to be cut off from contact with British scholars. Has dedicated his new edition of Linnaeus' "Philosophia botanica" to the Linnean Society and is sending it via Hornemann of Copenhagen; currently unable to send his "Historia rei herbariae" (1807-1808).

Commends his friend, the son of Hagen of Königsberg, to Smith; wishes he could accompany him to Britain to study the treasures there. Requests news of Smith's studies and [Sir Joseph] Banks' old age.

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London
From:
Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
5 Mar 1813
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/9/58, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Hopes Smith receives the treatise he is sending [probably "Plantarum Umbelliferarum denuo disponendarum Prodromus" (1813)], asks that the second copy be sent to [Samuel] Goodenough and that he be sent specimens of any plants he is lacking from that family.

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London