John Hope, Edinburgh, to James Edward Smith, at Mr Batty's, 6 Great Marlborough Street, London

Summary

Thanks for Hedwig and Broughton books, specimens of British plants, information on a cabinet for dried plants, and list of botanical books. List of books to be purchased for University Library, including: [William] Curtis' "Flora Londinensis", [Nikolaus von] Jacquin's "Flora Austriaca", "Icones plantare rariorum", and "Miscellanea Austriaca", [Casimir Christoph] Schmidel's "Dissertationes botanices", [Anders] Retzius' "Fasciculus observationum botanicarum", and Meerberg's "Icones Ludg. Bat.".

Letter details

Record number

LINNEAN2188

From

John Hope

To

Sir James Edward Smith

Date

7 Oct 1784

Sent from

Edinburgh

Sent to

London

Source of text

GB-110/JES/COR/23/15, 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.