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LINNEAN385

From:
Carlo Allioni
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
1 Dec 1787
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/1/36, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Business matters and sale of books in London.

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London

RS-LP-001618

From:
Edward Jenner
To:
John Hunter
Date:
27 December 1787
Source of text:
L&P/9/80/1, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-LP-001617

From:
John Lyon
To:
Charles Blagden
Date:
6 December 1787
Source of text:
L&P/9/74/1, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-000306

From:
Lucius Henry O'Brien
To:
Joseph Banks
Date:
11 December 1787
Source of text:
MM/6/43, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

LINNEAN1469

From:
Thomas Jenkinson Woodward
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
14 Dec 1787
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/18/31, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Discusses Smith's living arrangements for near future. Asks Smith to pick up parcel from [William] Withering for him; contains a variety of 'Carex panicea'. List of London commissions for Smith to carry out for him including books and desiderata list [extant, 4 pages of plant names, some have been marked].

Smith's imminent establishment of a botanical society [Linnean Society, founded 1788]; discusses possibility of writing a paper on 'Lycoperdon' and difficulties of its current classification, and suggests additional paper on 'Cryptogamia'. Message for [Samuel] Goodenough: waiting for response from his Yarmouth, [Norfolk], friend on 'Fucus'.

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The Linnean Society of London
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