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LINNEAN1259

From:
William Roscoe
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
[2 Jul 1815]
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/17/100, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Discusses plans for proposed visit by Smith, [Thomas William] Coke, and Dr Parr to Allerton in September. Intends to write further on 'Scitamineae' plants; asks Smith to provide details of plant they examined in [Edward] Rudge's "Plants of Guiana" and [Etienne Ventenat's] "Jardin de Malmaison" and provides rough ink sketch and comments on appearance. Will not comment on the "astonishing events we have lived to see in the political world". Has not seen Smith's mother in Liverpool yet.

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London
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L916

From:
Claude-Julien Bredin
To:
André-Marie Ampère
Date:
5 juillet 1815
Source of text:
Lettres inédites de Claude-Julien Bredin (Lyon: 1936), p. 99-100.
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
La Correspondance d’André-Marie Ampère

LINNEAN3260

From:
Humphry Repton
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
9 Jul 1815
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/8/94, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Has been confined for nine months [on account of his angina pectoria]. Philosophical reflections on friendship; life; Smith's botanical achievements; recent history, including fall of the Bourbons and rise of Napoleon; notions of power and glory; and his own approaching death, inspired by death of [Samuel] Whitbread [(1764-1815) politician, who killed himself by cutting his throat on 6 July 1815].

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London
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L516

From:
Claude-Julien Bredin
To:
André-Marie Ampère
Date:
10 juillet 1815
Source of text:
Correspondance du Grand Ampère (Paris: 1936), p. 502.
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
La Correspondance d’André-Marie Ampère
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Faraday0053

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Benjamin Abbott
Date:
12 July 1815
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 123
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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L517

From:
André-Marie Ampère
To:
Claude-Julien Bredin
Date:
13 juillet 1815
Source of text:
Correspondance du Grand Ampère (Paris: 1943), p. 893-894.
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
La Correspondance d’André-Marie Ampère
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Faraday0054

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Benjamin Abbott
Date:
18 July 1815
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 123
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

LINNEAN2111

From:
Thomas Furly Forster
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
30 Jul 1815
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/22/36, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Introduces [George Wilson] Meadley [(1774-1818), biographer]. Believes he has found new species of 'Malva' and 'Lotus'.

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London

Herschel7813

From:
William Wallace
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[31 July 1815]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.21
Summary:

Sends paper on fluxions written for Edinburgh Encyclopaedia. Uses new formulas, dispensing with binomial theorem. Brings logarithmic and exponential formulae within power of common algebraic processes.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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