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RS-LP-001568

From:
George Fordyce
To:
Joseph Banks
Date:
24 February 1785
Source of text:
L&P/8/136, Royal Society
Summary:

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Royal Society

LINNEAN1453

From:
Thomas Jenkinson Woodward
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
1 Feb 1785
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/18/17, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Details his preparations for visit to London to view the Linnaean collections; asks for a list of duplicate books. Discusses possible works that Smith could base on the collections, including a "Flora Britannica" and a selection of Linnaeus' correspondence. Supposes the new edition of "Systema vegetibilium" not as useful as the former, which is now scarce.

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London

LINNEAN1454

From:
Thomas Jenkinson Woodward
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
24 Feb 1785
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/18/18, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Details of his and [Robert] Stone's [(c 1751-1829), botanist] pending visit to London. Received [William] Hudson's specimen of 'Corrigiola' from [John] Pitchford; totally unlike 'Illecebrum verticillatum' of Vaillant's figure and "Flora dan[ica]".

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London

LINNEAN2230

From:
John Latham
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
3 Feb 1785
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/23/53, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Accepts invitation to see the Linnaean collections. Scarcely knows more than the outlines of botany, his interests being ornithology and entomology.

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The Linnean Society of London
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