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From:
André-Marie Ampère
To:
Claude-Julien Bredin
Date:
1813
Source of text:
Correspondance du Grand Ampère (Paris: 1936), p. 454.
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La Correspondance d’André-Marie Ampère
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Dr. [Charles] Burney offered him a position at his academy. He will, however, remain at the shipping company.
Engraving of medal showing profile of William Roscoe
Recovered from several violent catarrhous complaints and coughs. Also heard a good account of [Aylmer Bourke] Lambert and the Linnean Society, "both are in good preservation". He and others doubt the eligibility of Cullum's proposal for an annual Linnean Society medal for best paper, "pure fame is a better object than gold". Currently working on the syngenesious class of Greek plants, which will finish third part of "Florae Graecae Prodromus". Recently wrote lives of Philip Miller and [Robert] Morison [(1620-1683), botanist] for [Abraham] Rees' "Cyclopedia", and [Francis] Masson's [(1741-1805), Kew plant collector] has just appeared [in a footnote to this paragraph Cullum has noted that Smith was paid £3000 for his contributions to the "Cyclopedia"]. Praises Hooker's work "Jungermanniae".
Merits of small turkeys "over more pompous large ones". His roost robbed but only old birds taken.
Congratulates JH on becoming Senior Wrangler.
Sends seeds; asks for list of desiderata to avoid duplication; sends his list.
Regarding the equations in his memoir on the series of tangents. Queries about the Analytical Society.
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Answers to JH's questions on equations. Regarding the printing of his memoirs. Recent meeting of the Analytical Society.
Philosophizes about society, college, time passing, and the 'fog' of present life. Wants to know all that is going on at Cambridge. Sends fond greetings to friends. [Letter completed 2-22].
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Thanks for Smith's sympathies on death of his clever and resourceful daughter, [Maria]. She was attended to by Dr [Matthew] Baillie, gives an account of her final illness and death: following her recovery from an indisposition which lasted over a year a bilious attack came on which gave way to a low fever and rapid accumulation of water on the chest and in the lungs, leading to instantaneous suffocation. During the fever her pulse was only from 78 to 84. Calomel, draughts, blisters behind the ears and on the scalp, and seed water were all tried. Sir Joseph Banks very ill but thinks his strong constitution will carry him through; the moderate quantities of L'Eau medicinale he has taken have not had their usual relieving effect.
Further equations discussed. Has purchased more books. Regarding the printing of the memoir. [Letter continued on 1813-3-2.]
Encloses lichen resembling 'Lichen leucomelas' found at Babbicombe, [Devon], for Smith's opinion. Tempestuous weather but his brother's health improving.
[Smith has annotated 'Lichen leucomelos' on recto of folio]