Sir Thomas Gery Cullum, Bury [St Edmunds, Suffolk], to Sir James Edward Smith, Upper Seymour Street, Portman Square, [London]

Summary

Has been unable to procure enough signatures to propose [William] Webb as a FLS. Hopes Smith will meet with Webb whilst they are both in London and that Smith can arrange for the certificate to be signed; includes a prepared one with his own signature [second folio of this letter]. Webb is considering taking a vacant parsonage and rectory near Bury but Cullum hopes he will wait for the mastership of his college [Clare Hall, Cambridge].

Promised to send Forster bulbs of 'Tulipa sylvestris' and roots of 'Genista pilosa'. 'Osmunda lunaria' "nearly in perfection".

Letter details

Record number

LINNEAN839

From

Sir Thomas Gery Cullum

To

Sir James Edward Smith

Date

10 May 1815

Sent from

Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk

Sent to

London

Source of text

GB-110/JES/COR/13/36, 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.