Search: letter in document-type 
1810-1819::1811 in date 
Sorted by:

Showing 120 of 137 items

Text Online
From:
André-Marie Ampère
To:
Gosvin de Stassart (baron)
Date:
1811
Source of text:
Correspondance du Grand Ampère (Paris: 1943), p. 877.
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
La Correspondance d’André-Marie Ampère
Text Online
From:
André-Marie Ampère
To:
Jacques Roux-Bordier
Date:
1811
Source of text:
Correspondance du Grand Ampère (Paris: 1943), p. 876-877.
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
La Correspondance d’André-Marie Ampère
Text Online
From:
André-Marie Ampère
To:
Jean-Marie Périsse-Marsil
Date:
janvier 1811
Source of text:
Correspondance du Grand Ampère (Paris: 1936), p. 360-361.
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
La Correspondance d’André-Marie Ampère
Text Online
From:
Jacques Roux-Bordier
To:
André-Marie Ampère
Date:
1er janvier 1811
Source of text:
Fonds André-Marie Ampère chemise 393bis., Archives de l'Académie des sciences, Paris
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
La Correspondance d’André-Marie Ampère
From:
James Sowerby
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
[1811]
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/JS/14, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Sending what plants he can for "English botany" and two "Flora Graeca" plates, including the frontispiece. Sends an 'Hieracium' from [Jonathan] Salt [(1759-1815)] of Sheffield. Uncertain what to do with [Aylmer Bourke] Lambert's 'Cnicus tuberosus'.

[Written on recto of proof page from "English Botany" no 2249, dated February 1811]

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
T. Huxtable
Date:
c1811
Source of text:
Bence Jones (1870a), 1: 13-14
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Thomas Jenkinson Woodward
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
2 Jan 1811
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/18/128, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Replies to Smith's letter of 15 December [1810]. Seldom sees [Dawson] Turner since leaving Bungay, [Suffolk]; has made observations on Turner's 'Fucus simpliciusculus' and its resemblance to his 'Ulva decorticata'; notes. Comments that Turner's work ["Fucus sive plantarum fucorum"] seems to relax as it approaches its end; a number has not come out for two months; criticises its unpleasant arrangement.

"Most severe loss" to Linnean Society and students of natural history all over the world in death [Jonas] Dryander; repsumes [Robert] Brown will succeed him at Sir Joseph Banks'. Death of Windham and the loss to residents of Earsham, [Norfolk]; obituaries.

[Letter incomplete: lower third of second folio cropped, presumed destroyed]

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London
From:
William Roscoe
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
2 Jan 1811
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/17/74, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Confined to his house for the last three weeks but almost recovered. [Liverpool Botanic Garden] has purchased [Thomas] Velley's herbarium, including his marine specimens. Asks if his "Rocket against the French botanists" [paper comparing systems of Linnaeus and Jussieu, see RelatedMaterial below] has been read yet; thinks he can now fully explain the distinction between a natural and artificial system; wishes the animosities between Britain and France could be confined "within such harmless limits" but the business of "cutting throats" now seems to be a permanent state of society. Published some brief observations on speech by Lord [Thomas] Grey [de Wilton, 1st Earl of Wilton (1749-1814)] and has collected his political tracts into a volume, will send copies for Smith, William Taylor, John Taylor, and Samuel Taylor.

[Liverpool Botanic] Garden flourishes; [John] Shepherd [(c 1764-1836, curator Liverpool Botanic Garden] has "collected more plants than he cou[l]d probably have done in a voyage round the world". Sorry to hear that so many of the country's finest [plant] collections are being broken up and dispersed; symptomatic of the state of the nation led by ministers who "ride it like an ass, with nails for spurs, & a bludgeon for a whip".

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London
Text Online
From:
Claude-Julien Bredin
To:
André-Marie Ampère
Date:
6 janvier 1811
Source of text:
Correspondance du Grand Ampère (Paris: 1936), p. 358-359.
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
La Correspondance d’André-Marie Ampère
From:
Edward Daniel Clarke
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
6 Jan 1811
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/3/75, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Has given [Aylmer Bourke] Lambert all the plants he collected on his travels on condition of receiving descriptions of any new species and a list of the whole, and instructions that any duplicates be sent onto Smith. Particularly anxious to know whether Smith has received all the 60 new species belonging to the Grecian collection.

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London
Text Online
From:
Jean-Marie Périsse-Marsil
To:
André-Marie Ampère
Date:
7 janvier 1811
Source of text:
Correspondance du Grand Ampère (Paris: 1936), p. 359.
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
La Correspondance d’André-Marie Ampère
From:
Alexander Macleay
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
9 Jan 1811
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/AM/64, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Thanks for turkey. Sir James Graham [1st baronet, (d 1824)] cannot expect to be made vice-president if elected to Linnean Society Council, on the Council's recommendation, he as he has only attended the Society once.

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London
From:
Constantine Samuel Rafinesque
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
12 Jan 1811
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/9/22, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Refers to letter and books he sent in June 1810. Asks Smith to recommend his ichthyological discoveries to Dr [George] Shaw, having heard he recently wrote a "Natural History of Fishes". Resigned to not becoming a corresponding member of the Linnean Society. Sends his memoir on genus 'Bertolonia', which contains 6 species that had been confused with 'Verbena nodiflora'. Asks for directions to send papers to "Annals of Botany". [Antonio] Bivona [Bernardi] is grieved that John White, the bookseller, has refused to sell the books he sent. Currently illustrating [Franciscus Cupani's] "Panphyton Siculum", further remarks on it.

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London
From:
Constantine Samuel Rafinesque
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
12 Jan 1811
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/9/23, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

This is a duplicate copy of Rafinesque's letter, sent with his letter of 30 March 1811.

Refers to letter and books he sent in June 1810. Asks Smith to recommend his ichthyological discoveries to Dr [George] Shaw, having heard he recently wrote a "Natural History of Fishes". Resigned to not becoming a corresponding member of the Linnean Society. Sends his memoir on genus 'Bertolonia', which contains 6 species that had been confused with 'Verbena nodiflora'. Asks for directions to send papers to "Annals of Botany". [Antonio] Bivona [Bernardi] is grieved that John White, the bookseller, has refused to sell the books he sent. Currently illustrating [Franciscus Cupani's] "Panphyton Siculum", further remarks on it.

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London
From:
Samuel Goodenough
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
12 Jan 1811
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/11/95, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

A fit of gout has taken away the use of his right hand. Thanks for turkey, hopes to send oysters in return once they are good again. Smith's appointment of [Thomas] Marsham as vice-president "gives universal satisfaction". Proposes that [Robert] Brown's position and salary as Linnean Society Librarian be divided between him and another person; "£100 per ann[um] & the use of the House is extravagant pay for 4 hours service in a week".

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London
From:
Thomas Johnes
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
14 Jan 1811
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/16/90, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Thanks for Smith's letter of 31 December. His wife and daughter [Mariamne Johnes] have severe colds, and he has been ill, too, but by following medical rules of cupping, blistering, and Calomel, they have gained relief. Hopes to see Smith in London in the spring.

Has long heard of the treasures of Holkham, [Norfolk, home of Thomas William Coke] but doubts likelihood of his ever visiting. Has amused himself with the exiled King of Sweden's father's work, and Madame des Duffand's letter to Lord Oxford. High winds and heavy rain but no snow.

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London
Text Online
From:
André-Marie Ampère
To:
Marc-Auguste Pictet
Date:
15 janvier 1811
Source of text:
Correspondance. Sciences et techniques, t. II Les correspondants français (Genève: 1998), p. 20-21.
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
La Correspondance d’André-Marie Ampère
From:
Thomas Marsham
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
15 Jan 1811
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/ADD/69, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Thanks for Smith's intended nomination of him as a Vice President of the Linnean Society, and though he would prefer to be nominated Treasurer he will not withold his assent. [Samuel Goodenough] recovering from severe fit of gout.

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London
From:
William Roscoe
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
[18 Jan 1811]
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/17/75, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Notes that his his paper on classification [see RelatedMaterial below] has been read at Linnean Society; confident his principles are correct, and confirmed by Smith's assent, but could have given better examples. Critiques Count [Johann Centurius] Hoffmannsegg's [(1766-1849), naturalist] "Flore Portugaise" [(1809-1840)], which quotes Smith; plates coloured well but the system shows need to adhere to an established plan of arrangement so botanists can understand each other; discusses further.

Expecting his copy of Smith's "Tour of Hafod". He has been devising a method for putting an "effectual end to the African slave trade" and also looking into the state of the arts during the Middle Ages for a memoir. Looking forward to Smith's Lancashire visit.

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London
Text Online
From:
André-Marie Ampère
To:
Marc-Auguste Pictet
Date:
19 janvier 1811
Source of text:
Correspondance. Sciences et techniques, t. II Les correspondants français (Genève: 1998), p. 22-23.
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
La Correspondance d’André-Marie Ampère