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LINNEAN407

From:
Sir Joseph Banks
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
15 Feb 1796
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/1/56, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Details of [John] Sibthorp's will: provision for publishing his "Flora Graeca" in ten volumes each containing 100 plates, and when the work is finished the produce of the estate to be applied to the establishment of a professorship of Rural Economy at Oxford University when certain conditions are met. Discussion of candidates for professorship at Oxford. The "miraculous field" near Norwich.

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London

RS-MM-000384

From:
Joseph Banks
To:
Joseph Banks
Date:
15 March 1796
Source of text:
MM/7/155, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-000385

From:
Joseph Banks
To:
Joseph Banks
Date:
4 December 1796
Source of text:
MM/7/159, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

LINNEAN408

From:
Sir Joseph Banks
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
16 Jan 1797
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/1/57, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Thanks for turkeys. [Jonas] Dryander is working on the botanic part of the "catalogue" ["Hortus Kewensis"], they have arrived at 'Diadelphia' in [Adam] Afzelius' plants.

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London

LINNEAN409

From:
Sir Joseph Banks
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
27 Feb 1797
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/1/58, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Double geraniums given to Lady Banks by Lady Charlotte Murray [(1754–1808), sister of 4th Duke of Atholl], and discussion of who to credit the discovery to, to the best advantage of the "study of botany". Compliments Mrs Smith on turkeys.

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London

LINNEAN410

From:
Sir Joseph Banks
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
18 Mar 1797
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/1/59, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Thanks Mrs Smith for turkeys. [Aylmer Bourke] Lambert "delighted" with 'Lambertia', named by Smith in his honour. Unable to confirm or disprove Smith's opinion on the fruits of 'B[anksia] pyriformis' and ['brebeinum'].

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London

RS-MM-000292

From:
Joseph Banks
To:
George Leonard Staunton
Date:
27 July 1797
Source of text:
MM/6/17, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-000386

From:
Joseph Banks
To:
Joseph Banks
Date:
October 1797
Source of text:
MM/8/5, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-001075

From:
Joseph Banks
To:
Joseph Banks
Date:
17 October 1797
Source of text:
MM/16/103, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-000387

From:
Joseph Banks
To:
Joseph Banks
Date:
27 November 1797
Source of text:
MM/8/6, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

LINNEAN412

From:
Sir Joseph Banks
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
14 Jan 1798
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/1/60, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Thanks Mrs Smith for turkey. Unable to recommend Bracy Clarke to the directors [Executive Directory, body of five directors that held executive power in France, 1795-1799] for obtaining a passport, but nevertheless admires his acquirements as a veterinary surgeon.

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London

LINNEAN413

From:
Sir Joseph Banks
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
5 Feb 1798
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/1/61, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Has specimens of 'Poa bulbosa' from France, Syria and Switzerland but not England. Has compared his specimen of the 'viviperous' variation against two texts. Not sending his 'Clumae' as his specimens are foreign. Comments on grasses.

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London

RS-MM-000388

From:
Joseph Banks
To:
Nevil Maskelyne
Date:
25 June 1798
Source of text:
MM/8/10, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

LINNEAN414

From:
Sir Joseph Banks
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
3 Aug 1798
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/1/62, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Fears that the packages from India he has sent by waggon may be damaged in transit. Detained in London by experiments with alloys at the Mint.

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London

RS-MM-000389

From:
Joseph Banks
To:
Joseph Banks
Date:
15 November 1798
Source of text:
MM/8/11A, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-000120

From:
Joseph Banks
To:
William Mudge
Date:
15 November 1798
Source of text:
MM/3/61, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

LINNEAN415

From:
Sir Joseph Banks
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
9 Dec 1798
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/1/63, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Has received a letter from [Pierre Marie Auguste] Broussonet in Tangier, [Morocco], and forwarded to Smith a parcel of specimens collected in Barbary by Broussonet. Is sending a collector to New South Wales, asks for any papers from "Linnean Transactions" on plants of the area. Has received letters from [Friedrich Conrad] Hornemann, who was intending to set out for the interior of Africa on 12 September, following difficulties with the French. Thanks Mrs Smith for turkeys.

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London

RS-MM-000390

From:
Joseph Banks
To:
William Wales
Date:
10 December 1798
Source of text:
MM/8/12, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-000391

From:
Joseph Banks
To:
Joseph Banks
Date:
21 December 1798
Source of text:
MM/8/13, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-000392

From:
Joseph Banks
To:
Nevil Maskelyne
Date:
28 December 1798
Source of text:
MM/8/14, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
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