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LINNEAN448

From:
Sir Joseph Banks
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
15 Mar 1815
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/1/93, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Thanks Lady Smith for excellent supply of turkeys had throughout the year. His house attacked by rioters [Corn Law riots], describes noble and fearless behaviour of Lady Banks and his sister. Has confirmed that the French medicine is made of 'Colchicum' and that Dr Wilson of Yoxford, Suffolk, is selling it as a patent medicine, 'Colchicum' now given in St George's Hospital for inflammatory rheumatism.

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London
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L510

From:
André-Marie Ampère
To:
Claude-Julien Bredin
Date:
20 mars 1815
Source of text:
Correspondance du Grand Ampère (Paris: 1936), p. 497.
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
La Correspondance d’André-Marie Ampère

LINNEAN2658

From:
Thomas William Coke
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
21 Mar 1815
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/3/81, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Relates events after being confronted by "an awkward mob with bad intentions" [following an address he made in Norwich in favour of the Corn Law].

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London

Herschel12626

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
[23 March 1815]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0050; Reel 1054
Summary:

Attending E. D. Clarke's mineralogy lectures. JH's analysis of dioptase.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5089

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
[23 March 1815]
Source of text:
RS:HS 2.38 (C: RS:HS 20.23)
Summary:

Regarding the vacant professorship of chemistry at Cambridge. Recent chemical experiments. Has obtained the book from Mr. Higman. Mr. Pulling was here recently.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

LINNEAN312

From:
Sir James Edward Smith
To:
Alexander Macleay
Date:
24 Mar 1815
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/AM/90, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Returns proof sheet with necessary corrections. Glad Macleay's son returned safely from France; deplores the "unexpected return of war & desolation", and thinks it "ought to have been effectually guarded against" [return of Napoleon]; hopes the French can settle it amongst themselves, "for they are no more worth cutting honest men's throats about than the Spaniards"; glad the Duke of Wellington [Arthur Wellesley (1769-1852)] got away safely, expected him to be murdered.

Directions for forwarding seeds sent by [Andre] Thouin. Intends to be in London for 18 April, following a visit to Lowestoft, [Suffolk], on account of his mother-in-law's paralytic stroke.

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London

LINNEAN3249

From:
Pierre Joseph Redouté
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
6 Apr 1815
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/8/84, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

His work "Les Liliacées".

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London

LINNEAN1410

From:
William Roscoe
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
8 Apr 1815
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/17/98, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

He and his daughters thank Smith for present of the "two fruit-pieces"; Smith can retain the 'Canna' drawings for the present; sending Smith tracings of [Charles] Plumier's [(1646-1704) botanist] drawings and volume of poems collected by Mrs Riddel, for Lady [Pleasance] Smith.

Shocked by reports of the burning of Holkham, [Norfolk, home of Thomas William Coke], until realising impossibility of finding a mob to injure the man "who is the pride of Norfolk", though sorry to hear of the "ignorance & brutality" at Norwich. Expects to see Smith and Coke at Lord [Thomas, 1st Viscount] Anson's [(1769-1818)] this year.

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London

LINNEAN2659

From:
Thomas William Coke
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
15 Apr 1815
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/3/82, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Developments following his encounter with an anti-corn law mob in March. Sorry that Smith's friendly feelings towards him could mark him out to a "deluded populace", and had hoped that the feeling against him would have subsided by this time.

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London
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L511

From:
André-Marie Ampère
To:
Claude-Julien Bredin
Date:
16 avril 1815
Source of text:
Correspondance du Grand Ampère (Paris: 1943), p. 887-888-889.
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
La Correspondance d’André-Marie Ampère
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Faraday0050

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Margaret Faraday
Date:
16 April 1815
Source of text:
Bence Jones (1870a), 1: 206-8
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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L1078

From:
Jacques Roux-Bordier
To:
André-Marie Ampère
Date:
22 avril 1815
Source of text:
Fonds André-Marie Ampère chemise 332., Archives de l'Académie des sciences, Paris
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
La Correspondance d’André-Marie Ampère

LINNEAN4

From:
William Swainson
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
22 Apr 1815
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/ADD/101, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Sending 30 roots each of new or little known Sicilian 'Orchideae', described in [Antonius] Bivona [Bernardi's] "Sicularum plantarum": 'Orchis longibracteata', 'Orchis purpurea', 'Orchis longicornu', 'Orchis acuminata', 'Ophrys tenthredinifera', and 'Ophrys lutea', also added roots of 'Arum tenuifolium'; a proportion being sent to Kew, hopes they will become permanently introduced. Botanists of Sicily "anxiously looking" for second volume of "Prodromus florae graecae"; believes his herbarium may contain species which escaped [John] Sibthorp.

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London
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L512

From:
André-Marie Ampère
To:
Pierre-Simon Ballanche
Date:
25 avril 1815
Source of text:
Correspondance du Grand Ampère (Paris: 1943), p. 889-890.
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
La Correspondance d’André-Marie Ampère

LINNEAN3295

From:
Heinrich Adolph Schrader
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
29 Apr 1815
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/9/32, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Asks if Smith received the letter and parcel dated 15 May 1814 he sent via Hayne. Encloses the same undetermined plants, for Smith's opinion, in case Smith did not receive them, for inclusion in second volume of "Flora Germanica", asks that Smith reply via [Charles] Konig.

Requests specimens of 'Potamogeton compressus', 'Potamogeton gramineus', and 'Potamogeton lanceolatus', all "English botany", and 'Verbascum virgatum' "Flora Britannica". Also desires specimens of 'Verbascum boerhavii' and 'Verbascum orbeckii' as he has doubts over their classification; observations on characters.

As thanks for Smith's "Introduction to Botany" sending copies of his essay "De Halophytis" and first part of his monograph on 'Verbascum'.

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London
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Faraday0051

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

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel10603

From:
Thomas W. Hornbuckle
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 May 1815]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.482
Summary:

Offering JH the position of assistant tutor at Michaelmas. [Draft from JH declining.]

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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L1155

From:
André-Marie Ampère
To:
Pierre Maine de Biran
Date:
3 mai 1815
Source of text:
chemise 261, Archives de l'Académie des sciences, Paris
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
La Correspondance d’André-Marie Ampère

LINNEAN839

From:
Sir Thomas Gery Cullum
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
10 May 1815
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/13/36, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Has been unable to procure enough signatures to propose [William] Webb as a FLS. Hopes Smith will meet with Webb whilst they are both in London and that Smith can arrange for the certificate to be signed; includes a prepared one with his own signature [second folio of this letter]. Webb is considering taking a vacant parsonage and rectory near Bury but Cullum hopes he will wait for the mastership of his college [Clare Hall, Cambridge].

Promised to send Forster bulbs of 'Tulipa sylvestris' and roots of 'Genista pilosa'. 'Osmunda lunaria' "nearly in perfection".

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London

LINNEAN840

From:
Sir James Edward Smith
To:
Sir Thomas Gery Cullum
Date:
13 May 1815
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/13/37, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Received Cullum's letter of 10 May late as he has moved to his cousin Kindersley's house and has since been unable to reach [William] Webb. Will ensure Webb's proposal certificate to become a FLS is signed. Hopes to see Cullum at Linnean Society anniversary meeting. Fears [Aylmer Bourke] Lambert is "rather nervous & restless".

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London
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