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LINNEAN412

From:
Sir Joseph Banks
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
14 Jan 1798
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/1/60, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Thanks Mrs Smith for turkey. Unable to recommend Bracy Clarke to the directors [Executive Directory, body of five directors that held executive power in France, 1795-1799] for obtaining a passport, but nevertheless admires his acquirements as a veterinary surgeon.

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London

LINNEAN413

From:
Sir Joseph Banks
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
5 Feb 1798
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/1/61, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Has specimens of 'Poa bulbosa' from France, Syria and Switzerland but not England. Has compared his specimen of the 'viviperous' variation against two texts. Not sending his 'Clumae' as his specimens are foreign. Comments on grasses.

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London

RS-MM-000388

From:
Joseph Banks
To:
Nevil Maskelyne
Date:
25 June 1798
Source of text:
MM/8/10, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

LINNEAN414

From:
Sir Joseph Banks
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
3 Aug 1798
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/1/62, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Fears that the packages from India he has sent by waggon may be damaged in transit. Detained in London by experiments with alloys at the Mint.

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London

RS-MM-000389

From:
Joseph Banks
To:
Joseph Banks
Date:
15 November 1798
Source of text:
MM/8/11A, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-000120

From:
Joseph Banks
To:
William Mudge
Date:
15 November 1798
Source of text:
MM/3/61, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

LINNEAN415

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

RS-MM-000390

From:
Joseph Banks
To:
William Wales
Date:
10 December 1798
Source of text:
MM/8/12, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-000391

From:
Joseph Banks
To:
Joseph Banks
Date:
21 December 1798
Source of text:
MM/8/13, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-000392

From:
Joseph Banks
To:
Nevil Maskelyne
Date:
28 December 1798
Source of text:
MM/8/14, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
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