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From:
André-Marie Ampère
To:
Claude-Julien Bredin
Date:
avril 1807
Source of text:
Correspondance du Grand Ampère (Paris: 1936), p. 315-316.
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
La Correspondance d’André-Marie Ampère
From:
Samuel Goodenough
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
6 Apr 1807
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/11/57, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Account of his attempts to clear the Salisbury-Smith dispute whilst sitting as vice-president at Linnean Society: [William George] Maton excused himself from allowing Salisbury's pamphlet ["Generic characters of English Botany"] into the Linnean Society by pleading ignorance; told Salisbury at Sir Joseph Banks' that he was wrong to make the Linnean Society the arena for his and Smith's dispute and that the pamphlet should be withdrawn, to which he initially agreed and then reneged, Salisbury then gave him the roots of 'Crocus aureus' and seeds of a 'Dahlia'; attempted expunge the pamphlet from the Society with a Council but could not form one; [Alexander] Macleay has left the pamphlet out of the list of donations to the Society. Sorry to see that Salisbury has so many papers in the new "Linnean Transactions" volume but enjoyed [Thomas] Rackett and Maton's paper on British shells.

Was in London "when the explosion took place with respect to the late Ministers" [the "Ministry of All the Talents", a national unity government which was formed in February 1806 and broke up in March 1807 over Catholic Emancipation], the King [George III (1738-1820)] is "conscientious on the matter" and "would die before he consented to the giving of power to the R[oman] Catholics". [Jonas] Dryander has said both Smith and Salisbury have behaved badly, but Salisbury much the worse. Sees that Norwich has got rid Dr L Adkins, never could bear him.

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London
Text Online
From:
Marchand
To:
André-Marie Ampère
Date:
12 avril 1807
Source of text:
Fonds André-Marie Ampère chemise 311, Archives de l'Académie des sciences, Paris
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
La Correspondance d’André-Marie Ampère
From:
Aylmer Bourke Lambert
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
13 Apr [1807]
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/6/52, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Saw Lady de Clifford's Chinese botanical drawings, is hoping to buy the remaining half of the packet. Progress of the Marquess' [of Blandford, George Spencer-Churchill] garden at Whiteknights, [Reading, Berkshire], he has planted 85,000 foreign trees since Christmas. Has seen or dined with [Sir Abraham and Amelia] Hume, [Edward] Rudge, [William] Roscoe, Sir Joseph Banks, and Lord Seaforth. Sir Th[omas Gery] Cullum ill.

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London
From:
Sir James Edward Smith
To:
Alexander Macleay
Date:
19 Apr 1807
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/AM/41, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Unable to leave for London today on account of severe weather and illness. Received "Linnean Transactions" vol 8: the shell paper "very valuable" but wonders "how some of [Richard] Salisbury's trash got admittance" instead of his own papers, especially that on 'Conchium'; criticises Salisbury's paper on a salt storm. Macleay right to leave Salisbury's "lying pamphlet" out of the list of presentations to the Society; agrees with [Samuel] Goodenough that it ought to be expelled but will leave it to the Society to decide. Upset at the Society's response to the matter, but does not intend to defend himself in "Transactions" as he will not put himself "on a footing with a man whom [he now has] materials to drive out not only of our Society but of all society".

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London