Antonio Scarpa, Pavia, [Italy], to James Edward Smith, chez le Chevalier Banks, Soho Square, London

Summary

Requests copy of Smith's "De Generatione". Does Smith know in what [Peter Simon] Pallas published about discovering the hearing organs of crayfish. Has translated [John] Hunter's "Memoir on the Digestion" [(1728-1793), surgeon], as well received as Hunter's "Animal economy" and work on venereal diseases. Plans to publish third, fourth, and fifth volumes of his own "Annotations Anatomiques" this year.

Letter details

Record number

LINNEAN3274

From

Antonio Scarpa

To

Sir James Edward Smith

Date

28 Mar 1788

Sent from

Pavia, Italy

Sent to

London

Source of text

GB-110/JES/COR/9/13, The Linnean Society of London

Language

French

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.

• Antonio Scarpa
• Sir James Edward Smith