From:
Sir James Edward Smith
To:
Alexander Macleay
Date:
22 Dec 1807
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/AM/45, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:
Sending a turkey. Received request from [William George] Maton for papers for the Linnean Society, happy to comply. Maton has asked whether the reference to Eden in his preface [to his "Introduction to Botany"] alludes to [Richard] Salisbury and "Paradisus Londinensis", to which he answered the passage was first written for his introductory lecture of April 1805, before their dispute, but would write the same now, as he "neither go a step one way or the other to avoid or to meet him".
Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London