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LINNEAN129

From:
Anna Gurney
To:
Unknown
Date:
[c 1821-1825]
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/AG/20, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

[Translation by Anna Gurney, not dated, references to posthumous publications of Peter Forsskål provide estimate of 1775 for date of original letter]

Death of Professor [Peter] Forsskål [(1732-1763), Swedish naturalist and explorer]; sending his posthumous works "Flora aegyptiaco-arabica" and "Descriptiones animalium" to Linnaeus.

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London

LINNEAN130

From:
Anna Gurney
To:
Unknown
Date:
[c 1821-1825]
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/AG/21, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

[Incomplete translation of letter dated 6 June 1775, by Anna Gurney]

Enclosing list of plants from Sweden which are not listed in "Flora Anglica".

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London

LINNEAN1315

From:
William Roscoe
To:
Unknown
Date:
[1821-1827]
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/17/151, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

According to Linnaean sexual system, with headings "Monandria" and "Diandria".

[Probably from Roscoe's working papers for his "Monandrian plants of the order Scitamineae.." (1828)]

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London

LINNEAN1316

From:
William Roscoe
To:
Unknown
Date:
[1821-1827]
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/17/152, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Sketch drawings in ink and pencil of reproductive organs of 'Canna', 'Maranta', 'Thalia', 'Myrosma', 'Alpinia', 'Zingiber', 'Amomum', 'Costus', 'Kaempferia', 'Curcuma', 'Colebrookia', and 'Gen. nov. au. Bot.'. Labels for 'Phrynium' and 'Philydrum' but no drawings.

[Probably from Roscoe's working papers for his "Monandrian plants of the order Scitamineae.." (1828)]

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London

LINNEAN1317

From:
William Roscoe
To:
Unknown
Date:
[1821-1827]
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/17/153, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Observations: 'Hellenia' of Retzius and Willdenow appears to be 'Alpinia'; 'Renealmia' omitted, 'Renealmia exaltata' resembles 'Globba uviformis' and 'Renealmia' of Andrews Bot Rep are 'Alpinia'; 'Amomum' divided into 'Zingiber' and 'Amomum'; 'Amomum zedoaria' is a 'Curcuma'; 'Hornstedtia' of Willdenow to be considered; 'Alpinia comosa' of Willdenow is a 'Costus'; and 'Globba' to be further examined.

[Probably from Roscoe's working papers for his "Monandrian plants of the order Scitamineae.." (1828)]

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London

LINNEAN1101

From:
Sir Thomas Frankland
To:
Unknown
Date:
2 Apr 1821
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/15/64, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Collates inconclusive evidence from his nephew, Edward Frankland, when in Dublin, and Duke of Gordon, as to indicators of sex of woodcocks. Two feathers sent by Edward Frankland inclosed [extant].

Two woodcock feathers.

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London

LINNEAN2315

From:
Samuel Marsh
To:
Unknown
Date:
7 Apr 1821
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/24/34, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Receipt for a paper and a box carried between Norwich and London, or vice versa, by Samuel C Marsh, signed by J Elmer [presumably connected to printing and proofs of "A selection of the correspondence of Linnaeus" (1821)].

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London

LINNEAN570

From:
J M Johnson
To:
Unknown
Date:
[1824-1826]
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/11/1, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Engraving of a middle-aged Carl Linnaeus. Inscription in pencil on bottom of page: "given by Mr Brightwell 1826. Taken from a bust in the Royal Gardens in Stockholm by J M Johnson, 1824".

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London
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HENSLOW-1014

From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
Unknown
Date:
13 July 1825
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society Library Mss.B.H382
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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