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

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

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

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

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Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Joseph Banks
To:
Joseph Banks
Date:
11 January 1799
Source of text:
MM/8/19, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Joseph Banks
To:
Joseph Banks
Date:
2 February 1799
Source of text:
MM/8/16, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Joseph Banks
To:
Nevil Maskelyne
Date:
4 February 1799
Source of text:
MM/8/17, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Sir Joseph Banks
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
[15 Feb 1795]
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/1/52, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Proposal by [Jonas] Dryander to procure for [Adam] Afzelius the late Richard Southgate's position at British Museum, but Afzelius unlikely to accept it, not least because of five other candidates being more skilled for the medal department.

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London
From:
Sir Joseph Banks
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
[16 Apr 1795]
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/1/53, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Has directed the Mayor of Falmouth, Cornwall, to grant a passport to Joseph Porto [pseudonym of José Francisco Corrêa de Serra] so he can come to London. Has enclosed a letter from Corrêa.

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London
From:
Sir Joseph Banks
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
3 Jan 1796
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/1/54, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Much obliged to Mrs Smith and the effort she goes to in supplying turkeys. Reports on an extremely fertile field near Norwich, apparently due to plague victims being buried in it.

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London
From:
Sir Joseph Banks
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
11 Jan 1796
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/1/55, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Compiling an account of an earthquake felt at Norwich, unsure whether it was caused by "an explosion in the air or under the earth".

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London
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
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
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
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
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