A W Hertouch to Linnaeus [translation]

Letter and/or further information available at http://linnean-online.org/64707/.

Also published in The Correspondence of Sir James Edward Smith, The Linnean Society's Archive Catalogue.

Please cite as “LINNEAN129,” in Ɛpsilon: The Linnean Society of London Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/linnean-society/letters/LINNEAN129

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[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.

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Record number: LINNEAN129
From: Anna Gurney
To: Unknown
Date: [c 1821-1825]
Source of text: GB-110/JES/AG/20, The Linnean Society of London
Language: English

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