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From:
André-Marie Ampère
To:
Claude-Julien Bredin
Date:
juin 1814
Source of text:
Correspondance du Grand Ampère (Paris: 1936), p. 478-479-480.
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La Correspondance d’André-Marie Ampère
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JG to be a father, has bought a new house, and urges JH to marry.
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Eager to hear about [Alexander von] Humboldt as soon as he appears at Soho Square. Has nearly the whole of [Thomas] Nuttall's [(1786-1859)] collection of [living] plants.
Corrected Smith's papers. Tried to see Lord Sidmouth [Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth (1757-1844)], advises Smith to write to him "without delay" [presumably in reference to Smith's Cambridge botany professor campaign].
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Compliments.
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Smith's candidature for Botany Professorship at Cambridge University. [Richard] Relhan has enquired after a report that [Martyn] is resigning in Smith's favour. Smith right in gaining support from outside Cambridge. Discusses process of Cambridge elections and reiterates Dr [Richard] Walker's [(1679-1764) founder of Cambridge Botanic Garden] provision in his gift of the lectureship that a foreigner may be elected if sufficiently qualified.
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Hopeful for Smith's Cambridge candidature [for botany professorship]; discusses possible impediment of Smith not belonging to the university and concludes his success will have a "favourable effect on the interests of science in general". Before it is printed asks Smith to review his paper critiquing [William] Roxburgh's paper on 'Scitamineae' in "Asiatic Researches"; unsure whether to omit descriptions of new genera from Lord [Edward Smith-]Stanley's "[Chinese] drawings". Resigned to not seeing Smith in Liverpool this summer.