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From:
Edmund Henry Barker
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
30 Mar 1824
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/2/4, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Sending a pamphlet. Engaged with W K Brown in promoting a subscription and a Committee in Norfolk for Greek independence, has succeeded in forming a Committee in Suffolk. Comments on varying levels of support received from political figures including [Sir John] Gladstone and [George] Canning. A controversy at Cambridge University between Heads of the Senate and Dr French and Professor Sedgwick. Asks whether an identification as to the language of the foreign words in the appendix to Dioscorides has been made. Remarks on [Johann Gottlob] Schneider's translation of Theophrastus and other works. Working on a translation of Schneider's Greek and German dictionary. Notes Samuel Parr's 77th birthday.

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The Linnean Society of London