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From:
André-Marie Ampère
To:
Balthazar Hubert de Saint-Didier
Date:
1797
Source of text:
Correspondance du Grand Ampère (Paris: 1943), p. 831-832.
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
La Correspondance d’André-Marie Ampère
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From:
Claude Carron (père de Julie)
To:
André-Marie Ampère
Date:
1797
Source of text:
Fonds André-Marie Ampère chemise 332., Archives de l'Académie des sciences, Paris
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
La Correspondance d’André-Marie Ampère
From:
Benjamin Vulliamy
To:
Joseph Banks
Date:
1797
Source of text:
L&P/11/30, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Andrew Caldwell
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
6 Jan 1797
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/3/14, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Happiness at hearing of marriage of Smith's "amiable young friend". Regret at Smith having removed to Norwich. Relates his summer excursions in Carlingford Bay, Ireland, where he encountered naturalised 'Antirrhinum cymbalaria' and 'Veronica decussata' growing profusely, before sailing to Portpatrick, Scotland. Description of the countryside, including ruins of Castle Kennedy. Travelled onto Glasgow via Culzean Castle, with a description of its setting, and remarks on improvements to Glasgow, return journey to Portpatrick including mountains and plantations. Concludes that August is a bad month for botany, nonetheless found a profusion of 'Parnassia', 'Campanula rotundifolia' covers the fields, missed 'Rhodiola rosea' in Portpatrick. Stayed with Lord Clanbrassil [James Hamilton (1730-1798) 2nd Earl of Clanbrassil] in Dandalk, Ireland, description of his house and grounds, "a great amateur". Congratulates Smith on five plates in [William Curtis'] "Botanical Magazine". Asks whether it is worth subscribing to [Robert John] Thornton's [(c 1768-1837), physician and writer on botany] work. Asks if publication of Andrew's "Ericas" goes on. Saw a 'Phalana' from Virginia at Glasgow that may have been taken for a 'Papilio', reminded him of Smith on insects of North America, and in the "Nat. Miscel." as 'Luna'. Asks if Smith's "Flora" is to be an improved edition of Hudson ["Flora Anglica"]. [Walter] Wade satisfied with 'Hillarney', asks if the enclosed specimen [extant] is '[Hymenophyllum tunbridgense]'. Believes the "invasion" to be a "villainous state trick" [probably General Hoche's attempt in December 1796 to invade at Bantry Bay, Ireland].

Specimen of ['Hymenophyllum tunbridgense'].

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London
From:
Jacques Julien Houtou de Labillardière
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
[13 Jan 1797]
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/6/104, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

In Italy; the collections arrived in Paris; insects almost entirely destroyed but plants in good state; thanks to Smith and Banks for having procurred their return.

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London
From:
Samuel Goodenough
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
13 Jan 1797
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/11/35, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Hopes Smith's move to Norwich is successful. [Jonas] Dryander opposes [Richard] Salisbury's plan to publish "the heaths" with new names that are expressive of their differences ['Species of 'Erica'', "Linnean Transactions"]. Royal Society news: Prince William of Gloucester [and Edinburgh (1743-1805)] was proposed and a paper on the freezing of quicksilver with nitrous acid was read. Asks to be remembered to [John] Pitchford. Smith's turkey "excellent".

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London
From:
Sir Joseph Banks
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
16 Jan 1797
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/1/57, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Thanks for turkeys. [Jonas] Dryander is working on the botanic part of the "catalogue" ["Hortus Kewensis"], they have arrived at 'Diadelphia' in [Adam] Afzelius' plants.

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London
From:
Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford
To:
Cadel & Davies
Date:
20 January 1797
Source of text:
MM/9/5, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Thomas Marsham
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
29 Jan 1797
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/ADD/61, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Attended a meeting of the Printing Committee with [Samuel] Goodenough and [Jonas] Dryander, where they closed the volume with Smith's paper on 'Salisburia'; Smith's paper on 'Myrti' and [Bracy] Clark's on 'Oestrus' "carry it rather beyond the limits we proposed". The evening meeting was very well attended; list of attendees; after the meeting [John] Rising [(1753-1817), portrait and subject painter] showed Smith's portrait which was "much admired" and a print subscribed to.

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London
From:
José Francisco Corrêa de Serra
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
30 Jan 1797
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/3/99, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

An abscess on his right hand has delayed his reply to Smith's letter of 3 January. Has seen [Pierre Remi] Willemet's "Herbarium Mauritianum", agreeing with Smith that it is a "poor performance" and remarks that the Conway mentioned in the preface is the French commanding general in India, who may have obstructed Willemet from a political difference rather than a dislike of natural history. Attended meeting of the "Class of Natural Sciences" where it was reported that Willemet is in France and planning an expedition into the interior of Africa, and a eulogium of [John] Sibthorp by Mr de Guys was read. The only foreign botanical work of interest recently published is the "Museum Schtio-lithologicum-conense", a "splendid publication" and in English publications [Richard] Salisbury's "Prodromus", praising him as a "nebulous star". [Adam] Afzelius has brought "very extraordinary" and "truly paradoxical" plants from Africa, believes his "Flora Guineenss" will be a great step towards the improvement of botany. Has received a friendly letter from Rodrigo de Sousa [Countinho], advises Smith to write to him.

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London
From:
James Anderson
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
6 Feb 1797
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/1/43, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Difficulties of training and educating Smith's "young friend", Mr Johnes, in agriculture. Disinclined to send him to Edinburgh or Glasgow as knowledge in philosophy "is of no use in life [and] serves to make a man conceited and dogmatical". Criticises those teachers who speculate on agriculture from a distance and relates his own treatise on the proper education for a farmer. Requests Smith's help in locating a former correspondent from whom he once received a sample of "Peruvian wool". Concern for the health of Miss Johnes. Has just received from Dr [James] Anderson in India a sample of wool of a "bright golden yellow"; had it been found near Colchis it "might have been supposed to be the golden fleece".

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London
From:
Charlotte Smith
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
19 Feb 1797
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/9/53, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Her misfortunes: financial plights of herself and her children, emotional turmoil caused by death of her favourite daughter. Seeks employment to draw and colour plates for Smith's next "magnificent" work of natural history.

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London
From:
Thomas Johnes
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
[19 Feb 1797]
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/16/35, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Recounts his recent movements between Bath, Haford, and London, where he was called to prevent the destruction of all the timber at Croft, which Smith may have seen advertised, but failed. Saw Sir Joseph Banks this morning. Received from Dr [James] Anderson "a lock of the golden fleece" which he supposes Smith has accounts of in the papers; it is "very curious & just the colour of raw silk, a high gold colour".

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London
From:
Samuel Goodenough
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
21 Feb 1797
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/11/36, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Visited by [Charles] Sutton, who showed him 'Orobanche purpurea', a new species, and 'Orobanche ramosa'. Asks Smith to getting specimens of these as well as 'Robanche major' which grows in cornfields on 'Diadelphous' plants. Introduced Sir Thomas Frankland to the Linnean Society.

Thinks [Richard] Salisbury's nonemclature "improper not to say ridiculous" and sorry that he has persisted and even printed "his errors". [Jonas] Dryander and Salisbury are in dispute over the issue [renaming heath plants with new names based on differences between them] ['Species of 'Erica'', "Linnean Transactions"]. Smith correct the corolla of 'Agrostis littoralis', he has corresponded with [William] Withering on the issue it but believes he printed before Smith's observations were known, blames [Carl Peter] Thunberg for "this curious superficial daubing". Discussion of 'Carduus': after comparison of sessiles and calyx had already decided that [William] Curtis' 'Carduus tenuiflorus' was not 'Carduus pycnocephalus', nor does he think it 'Carduus australis' of [Linnaeus the younger's] "Supp[lementum]"; reassures Smith that he can trust him with his "difficulties".

Struggling with 'Potamogeton', particularly 'P. serratum', 'P. gramineum' (Smith's 'P. pectinatum'), [William] Hudson's 'P. pectinatum', and 'P. setaceum'; believes the latter three may be varieties of the same plant, has examined Sir Joseph Banks' specimens. Asks if 'P. serratum' is a species and whether 'P. setaceum' is a variety of 'P. pusillum'. Eager to hear when ["Linnean Transactions"] is printing; thinks [James] Sowerby has failed in his drawing of 'Fucus haliformis' [for Goodenough and Thomas Woodward's paper 'Observations on the British Fucus']. Jokes about an invasion by the French.

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London
From:
Thomas Johnes
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
[22 Feb 1797]
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/16/36, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Opportunity to acquire seeds from Constantinople, as long as the list corresponds with [Peter] Forsskål [(1732-1763), Swedish naturalist]; asks Smith to compile a list of rare and beautiful plants in return for a share of the seeds, had hoped to send list from [Peter Simon Pallas'] "Flora Rossica", particularly 'Rhododendron'. Much hampered by his mother's conduct but sale of the timber prevented by an injunction. Has heard from his sister, Charlotte; she and Mrs Kindersley both well and there is an addition to the family, she was going to Baughlepoor.

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London
From:
Sir Joseph Banks
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
27 Feb 1797
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/1/58, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Double geraniums given to Lady Banks by Lady Charlotte Murray [(1754–1808), sister of 4th Duke of Atholl], and discussion of who to credit the discovery to, to the best advantage of the "study of botany". Compliments Mrs Smith on turkeys.

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London
From:
Thomas Jenkinson Woodward
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
27 Feb 1797
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/18/108, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Thanks for Smith's letter of 20 January [1797]; pleased to hear of Smith's successful move from Hammersmith, [Middlesex], to Norwich, [Norfolk]. Had a letter from [Samuel] Goodenough expressing his regret at Smith's removal from London and fears of it being injurious to the Linnean Society; he himself fears Smith's "uninterrupted literary leisure" at Norwich will prevent his visits to London being as frequent as the wellbeing of the Society requires. Plans for their visit to the Smiths in Norwich.

Glad to hear of hopes of favourable outcome for [Mariamne] Johnes' lameness. There is no "greater plague than the fancied discoveries of young botanists", in reference to "minute" specimens sent by Dawson Turner of several marine plants. Writer in the "Gentleman's Magazine" for December [1796] has proposed arranging 'Fucus' with the zoophytes; in response states that 'Fucus' are "really & truly vegetables, producing seeds", and [John] Stackhouse is currently engaged in experiment of raising the larger sort from seed, and expects to succeed.

Glad Smith likes [William] Withering's new edition [of "An arrangement of British plants"]; Withering is indebted to Smith and others for the improvements; Withering's "true spirit of candour". Surprised by Smith's objection to the alteration of the system; had idea that Smith entirely approved [Carl Peter] Thunberg's system and that he intended to adopt it for his "Flora [Britannica]". Curious to see [Archibald] Menzies', not [Adam] Afzelius', 'Fucus' specimens, one appears similar to his 'Ulva decorticata'.

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London
From:
Thomas Johnes
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
[4 Mar 1797]
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/16/37, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Thanks Smith for list of seeds to be requested from Constantinople. Forwarded Smith's letter to Charlotte Smith; sorry she has met with such "ill usage, the abuse of the laws is the severest tyranny" but thinks her writings are "the first in the romance line".

Has had a blow to his credit. Praises gallantry of his countrymen. Heard this morning that the Dutch fleet are at sea, the east wind prevents the Downs fleet from sailing after them. Slow recovery of his daughter's health at Bath, [Somerset].

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London
From:
Sir Joseph Banks
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
18 Mar 1797
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/1/59, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Thanks Mrs Smith for turkeys. [Aylmer Bourke] Lambert "delighted" with 'Lambertia', named by Smith in his honour. Unable to confirm or disprove Smith's opinion on the fruits of 'B[anksia] pyriformis' and ['brebeinum'].

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London
From:
Olof Peter Swartz
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
22 Mar 1797
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/9/88, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Thanks for letter and parcel of 13 October 1796, which was delayed by the ship being caught in ice for the winter. Thanks for New Holland [Australia] 'Myrtoides'. Thanks for "morsel" of the original Linnaean specimen of 'Bryum viridulum', believes it is 'Hypnum bryoides', and that Linnaeus also took a variety of 'Bryum trancatulum' for 'Bryum viridulum', other additional errors, concludes that they should not rely on any Linnaean specimens of the 'Musci' and resort to Dillenius instead, as Linnaeus did. Comments on the 'Bryum' specimens he sent with his last letter. Thanks for Smith's observations of 'Lichen pellitus'. Thanks for specimen of 'Hypnum smithii'. Shall present Smith's paper on new genus 'Westringia' to [Swedish] Academy [of Sciences]. Praises [James] Sowerby's "English Fungi". Hopes some of his works on West Indian plants will soon be appearing in Germany.

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London