Carl Peter Thunberg, Upsala, [Sweden], to James Edward Smith, London

Summary

Sending parcel containing plants missing from certain dissertations, including 'Cliffortia', and money from the sale of some publications. This summer worked on classes 8-13 of the Cape [of Good Hope] flora; as some of less familiar may be Linnaean plants, sending specimens of 'Gnidia radiata', 'Passerina ericoides', 'Bergia capensis', and 'Milium capense'; possible that 'P. ericoides' and 'Lachnaea conglomerata' are the same plant; observations.

Letter details

Record number

LINNEAN493

From

Carl Peter Thunberg

To

Sir James Edward Smith

Date

28 Sep 1792

Sent from

Uppsala, Sweden

Sent to

London

Source of text

GB-110/JES/COR/10/30, 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.