From:
William Lort Mansel
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
6 Apr 1818
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/7/43, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:
Smith's candidature for Botany Professorship at Cambridge University. Sorry to hear of the measures the tutors have taken against Smith's proposed lectures. [Several tutors signed a paper addressed to the Vice-Chancellor stating that pupils should not be permitted to attend lectures given by a lecturer who was neither a member of the university nor of the Church of the England].
Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London