Edward Daniel Clarke, Jesus College, Cambridge, [Cambridgeshire], to James Edward Smith

Summary

Thanks Smith for his letter regarding the "little 'Dianthus'", comments on how the blossoms sometimes abruptly close at mid-day. Sending specimen and seeds of a possibly new 'Astragalus' [Smith has annotated above "only 'pilosus'"], which [George] Don had preserved for himself, a living specimen has been sent to Sir Joseph Banks but it has not been acknowledged. Gives a brief description of the leaves.

Letter details

Record number

LINNEAN2650

From

Edward Daniel Clarke

To

Sir James Edward Smith

Date

[1804]

Sent from

Cambridge, Cambridgeshire

Source of text

GB-110/JES/COR/3/74, 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.

• Edward Daniel Clarke
• Sir James Edward Smith