Ref NoGB-110/JES/COR/17/91
TitleWilliam Roscoe, Liverpool, [Lancashire], to James Edward Smith, at Mrs Wiggin's, Craven Hill, Bayswater, [London]
DescriptionHopeful for Smith's Cambridge candidature [for botany professorship]; discusses possible impediment of Smith not belonging to the university and concludes his success will have a "favourable effect on the interests of science in general". Before it is printed asks Smith to review his paper critiquing [William] Roxburgh's paper on 'Scitamineae' in "Asiatic Researches"; unsure whether to omit descriptions of new genera from Lord [Edward Smith-]Stanley's "[Chinese] drawings". Resigned to not seeing Smith in Liverpool this summer.
Date27 Jun 1814
LevelItem
Extent4 pp
LanguageEnglish
Related MaterialFor Smith's reply of 5 July 1814, see JES/COR/17/92.

Roscoe, W, 'Remarks on Dr. Roxburgh's Description of the Monandrous Plants of India; in a Letter to the President', "Transactions of the Linnean Society of London", 1816 11(2), pp.270-282.
NotesSmith replied 5 Jul [1814]
PrevRefNo17.183
Finding_AidsDawson, 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.
Creator NameRoscoe, William (1753-1831)
Access_StatusOpen
Persons
CodePersonNameDates
GB/110/1/31Roscoe; William (1753-1831); historian and patron of the arts1753-1831
GB/110/1/28Roxburgh; William (1751-1815); botanist1751-1815
GB/110/1/294Stanley; Edward Smith- (1775-1851); 13th Earl of Derby; politician and naturalist1775-1851
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