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LINNEAN405

From:
Sir Joseph Banks
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
3 Jan 1796
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/1/54, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Much obliged to Mrs Smith and the effort she goes to in supplying turkeys. Reports on an extremely fertile field near Norwich, apparently due to plague victims being buried in it.

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London

LINNEAN406

From:
Sir Joseph Banks
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
11 Jan 1796
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/1/55, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Compiling an account of an earthquake felt at Norwich, unsure whether it was caused by "an explosion in the air or under the earth".

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London

LINNEAN407

From:
Sir Joseph Banks
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
15 Feb 1796
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/1/56, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Details of [John] Sibthorp's will: provision for publishing his "Flora Graeca" in ten volumes each containing 100 plates, and when the work is finished the produce of the estate to be applied to the establishment of a professorship of Rural Economy at Oxford University when certain conditions are met. Discussion of candidates for professorship at Oxford. The "miraculous field" near Norwich.

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London

RS-MM-000384

From:
Joseph Banks
To:
Joseph Banks
Date:
15 March 1796
Source of text:
MM/7/155, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-000385

From:
Joseph Banks
To:
Joseph Banks
Date:
4 December 1796
Source of text:
MM/7/159, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
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