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LINNEAN437

From:
Sir Joseph Banks
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
13 Jan 1809
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/1/83, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Sends roots and runners of a grass called 'Fiorin' which [William] Richardson has written on with intention of making it a valuable animal foodstock, suspects it may be 'Agrostis stolonifera'. Has been bound to his bedroom since beginning of January. A vast fish, 55 feet [16.7m] long and 12 feet [3.7m] in circumference, that was washed up on the Orkney Islands is a cartilaginous fish and not a whale, as was supposed.

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London

RS-MM-000411

From:
Nevil Maskelyne
To:
Joseph Banks
Date:
26 May 1809
Source of text:
MM/8/67, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

LINNEAN438

From:
Sir Joseph Banks
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
24 Jul 1809
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/1/84, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Has resigned management of the King's [George III (1738-1820)] merino flock due to ill health. Only way Banks knows of obtaining the sheep is at the King's sale.

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London

LINNEAN439

From:
Sir Joseph Banks
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
7 Dec 1809
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/1/85, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Thanks Smith for turkeys. Grateful for assistance Smith has given to Mr Home. Postscript of a short Christmas poem by Thomas Tusser, taken from Tusser's "Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry", remarks that it was first printed in 1557.

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The Linnean Society of London
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