William Roscoe, Liverpool, [Lancashire], to James Edward Smith, at Mrs Wiggin's, Craven Hill, Bayswater, [London]

Summary

Hopeful for Smith's Cambridge candidature [for botany professorship]; discusses possible impediment of Smith not belonging to the university and concludes his success will have a "favourable effect on the interests of science in general". Before it is printed asks Smith to review his paper critiquing [William] Roxburgh's paper on 'Scitamineae' in "Asiatic Researches"; unsure whether to omit descriptions of new genera from Lord [Edward Smith-]Stanley's "[Chinese] drawings". Resigned to not seeing Smith in Liverpool this summer.

Letter details

Record number

LINNEAN1403

From

William Roscoe

To

Sir James Edward Smith

Date

27 Jun 1814

Sent from

Liverpool, Lancashire

Sent to

London

Source of text

GB-110/JES/COR/17/91, The Linnean Society of London

Language

English

Contributor

The Linnean Society of London[View Ɛpsilon collection]

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

• Sir James Edward Smith
• William Roscoe