| Ref No | GB-110/JES/COR/11/15 |
| Title | Samuel Goodenough to James Edward Smith, Great Marlborough Street, [London] |
| Description | Confident in Smith and [Jonas] Dryander's judgement respecting his paper ['Observations on the British Species of] 'Carex'''. Preparations necessary prior to the paper being read: asks Smith what he meant about the placing of the synonyma, will have drawn whatever needs engraving, asks how to credit Smith observing the capsules of '[Carex] dioica' and '[Carex] capitata', stating that his distinction between the two came from his own observations. Has omitted mentioning the serrulation of the capsules in many of the species. |
| Date | 20 Mar 1792 |
| Level | Item |
| Extent | 4 pp |
| Language | English |
| Related Material | Goodenough, S, 'Observations on the British Species of Carex', "Transactions of the Linnean Society of London", 1794 2(1), pp.126-211.
Goodenough, S, 'Additional Observations on the British Species of Carex', "Transactions of the Linnean Society of London", 1797 3(1), pp.76-79. |
| PrevRefNo | 11.28 |
| Finding_Aids | Dawson, W R, (1934). "Catalogue of the manuscripts in the Library of The Linnean Society - Part I. The Smith papers: The correspondence and miscellaneous papers of Sir James Edward Smith", London: Linnean Society. |