From:
Sir Joseph Banks
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
9 Dec 1798
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/1/63, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:
Has received a letter from [Pierre Marie Auguste] Broussonet in Tangier, [Morocco], and forwarded to Smith a parcel of specimens collected in Barbary by Broussonet. Is sending a collector to New South Wales, asks for any papers from "Linnean Transactions" on plants of the area. Has received letters from [Friedrich Conrad] Hornemann, who was intending to set out for the interior of Africa on 12 September, following difficulties with the French. Thanks Mrs Smith for turkeys.
Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London