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From:
Frank Sayers
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
12 Sep 1808
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/3/112, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Following their discussion the previous evening has looked into the earliest meaning of the word "Kuamos" ["Cyamus" transliterated from Greek alphabet, appropriated in English as "legumen"] with references to Homer's "Illiad", "Odyssey" and "Batrachomyomachia", cross referencing with [Christian Tobias] Damm's "Lexic. Homeric", relates his conclusions. Believes Theophrastus may have been the first to apply it to 'Nymphaea nelumbo' and compares other ancient writers' usage of the word.

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The Linnean Society of London