Georg Wolfgang Franz Panzer, Nuremberg, [Germany], to Sir James Edward Smith

Summary

Received Smith's letter of January 1818. Requests Smith's advice and determination on enclosed plants, since Smith is "unanimously considered the prince of botanists and the world's oracle on matters botanical"; has not added any cryptogamic plants, considering it impossible to add anything to Smith's already complete collection, but includes a catalogue of Germany's mosses.

Has sought Robert Brown's "Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae" in vain, and is told the author has suppressed it. Both he and Dr [Carl Bernhard von] Trinius [(1778-1844)], author of "Fundamenta Agrostopraphiae", think Smith's 'Alopecurus alpinus' is interesting; requests specimens.

Letter details

Record number

LINNEAN3170

From

Georg Wolfgang Franz Panzer

To

Sir James Edward Smith

Date

1 Oct 1821

Sent from

Nuremberg, Germany

Source of text

GB-110/JES/COR/8/12, The Linnean Society of London

Language

Latin

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.