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Smith, Sir James Edward, (1759-1828), Knight, botanist

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Surname: Smith
Pretitle: Sir
Forenames: James Edward
Gender: Male
Date: 1759-1828
Biography: ODNB link for Smith, Sir James Edward (1759-1828) Knight Botanist
Name authority reference: GB/NNAF/P147530 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P26481 )
Online related resources Bibliography of British and Irish History link for Sir James Edward Smith
Collections
Number Description Held by Reference Further information
1
1795: letter to Richard Pulteney (1730-1801), physician and botanist
Linnean Society of London
2019/02
See Annual Return 2019
2
corresp and papers
Linnean Society of London
Smith papers
NRA 9516
3
1801-27: misc corresp and papers
Oxford University: Sherardian Library of Plant Taxonomy
MSS Sherard
NRA 6305 Sherard
4
corresp (3 vols)
Yale University Libraries: Beinecke Library
d148
NRA 18661 Osborn coll
5
lecture notes
National Records of Scotland (formerly National Archives of Scotland)
GD253/144
See HMC MS papers of British scientists 1600-1940, 1982
6
1797: lectures
Oxford University: Magdalen College Archives
MS 603
NRA 20579 Magdalen Coll
7
1786-1818: corresp with Sir Joseph Banks (66 items)
See information in published source
See WR Dawson, The Banks letters, 1958
8
1801-15: corresp with John Hawkins
Oxford University: Sherardian Library of Plant Taxonomy
MS Sherard
See Bridson, Natural history MS resources 1980
9
1788-1808: letters to AB Lambert
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MS 28545
10
1814-20: letters to Macvey Napier
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MSS 34611-12 passim
11
1789-1802: letters to James Sowerby
Natural History Museum Library and Archives
See HMC MS papers of British scientists 1600-1940, 1982
12
corresp with James Sowerby
Linnean Society of London
See Annual Return 1993
13
1816-27: corresp with James and James de Carle Sowerby
Oxford University: Sherardian Library of Plant Taxonomy
MS Sherard
See HMC MS papers of British scientists 1600-1940, 1982
14
1789-1828: letters (404) to members of the Sowerby family
Natural History Museum Library and Archives
L Sowerby Coll A
See Catalogue of MSS...Natural History Museum (1995)