Announces election of JD as associate member of the Astronomical Society. [In a postscript,] JH states that the Society's prize for next year will be on the theory of the motions of Saturn's satellites.
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[Thomas] Hare wishes to dedicate a medical work to Smith. Recently hosted a party attended by Gray, Bennett, Edward Hartford, William Smith, Taylor, and Gibson. Believes the 'Silene' he found at Binfield, [Berkshire], is not 'S. lusitanica'; observations, including small ink sketch of petals; requests specimens to compare it against. [William Jackson] Hooker's "Flora Scotia" to be published soon.
[Note attached to verso of second folio] Title of Hare's book is "Considerations on the Structure, Functions, and Disorders of the Stomach and Alimentary Organs of the Human Body..." [(1821)].
Gratitude for election to Astronomical Society. Notes on double star Zeta Orionis. Regards to James South.
Family news.
Regarding the printing of the report and sanction of council. Details several points on which he requires guidance. New observatories in India. Can JH dine with him on Thursday?
Complains of delay in receiving mail, which was addressed to Colnbrook but misdirected to Abingdon and to Marlow.
Regarding W. T. Brande's attack on the Astronomical Society. Joseph Banks and his opposition to CB. Recent happenings in the Astronomical Society. Thanks for the volumes.
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Recovering from a severe bout of typhus. Has heard Smith is working on fourth volume of "Flora Britannica", gives habitat for a rare 'Clavaria ardenia' of [James] Sowerby.
Received Smith's letter of 17 February and is surprised by his impatience. Reiterates circumstances in attempts to find a position for Smith's nephew, Smith wishes for him a "more suitable career than trade", and whilst he would have been happy to take him to the United States it would only be out of friendship to Smith, and circumstances are now changed by his going to Brazil. Offers instead to have him received in the most credible mercantile houses in Brazil and in addition if he chooses to settle in Brazil to obtain a grant of land for him.
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Lists autographs already sent by Smith [for "A selection of the correspondence of Linnaeus" (1821)]; sets out costs of either engraving or lithograping the autographs; changes made to ordering.
List [in Smith's hand] of 15 "original autographs" sent to Nichols, dated 26 February 1821.
[Note in Nichols' hand] on proofs and copies.
Regarding W. T. Brande's recent attack on the Astronomical Society. The Board of Longitude and its dealings with CB. Has met Henry Warburton recently.
Reports to HW, director of the observatory at Åbo, on observations, made by a variety of British astronomers, of the solar eclipse of 7 September 1820.
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Received Smith's letter of 25 February. Advises Smith to set his nephew up in a London or Liverpool mercantile house that follows the Brazil trade so as to obtain a paid voyage to Brazil, where Corrêa would then be able to fulfill the promises he made to Smith in placing him in a Brazilian mercantile house.
Thanks for copy of Smith's "Grammar of Botany", hopes it will show the Horticultural Society "the usefulness of scientific botany". Hopes it is true that the Linnean Society are to take rooms in Soho Square [home of late Sir Joseph Banks]. Expects to see "Councillor Gage" at their assizes next week, he is an entertaining man but doubts he will succeed as a public speaker at the bar. Will feel the loss of Banks when he is next in London. The waters at Bath did not relieve his son's wife twelve-month long "rheumatic and gouty complaint".
Planning to study the herbariums in Oxford before coming to London. Has heard nothing of the Linnean Society taking rooms at the late Sir Joseph Banks' home. Will send Cullum a coloured copy of his "Grammar of Botany".