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Letter 28 August 1757, Downing to Carl Linnaeus, Uppsala....
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Letter 28 August 1757, Downing to Carl Linnaeus, Uppsala. L2220.
(Text, Manuscript)
Language
English
Latin
Persons
Pennant, Thomas
, 1726-1798
(author)
Linné, Carl von
, 1707-1778
(addressee)
Incipit
Die 8vo Aprilis ad te litteras responsorias misi
Origin
Downing
, Great Britain, August 28th. 1757.
Physical description
Format:
Non digital + Digital, reformatted digital
Transcription
Viro Illustrissimo, Carolo Linnaeo Eq[uiti],
Tho[mas] Pennant S[alutem] D[icit].
Die 8
vo
Aprilis ad te litteras responsorias misi, quae praecipue de Honore academico, quo me onerasti, attinent. Iterum atque iterum tibi grates ago, nec, dum spiro, tanti favoris immemor ero.
Nocte dieque expectavi adventum navis primae vernalis promissum munus a te ferentis. Sed jam non solum ver, sed etiam aestas transiere, nec quicquid de nave nec Thesauro minerali adhuc audivi. Ut te, quantum potui, pro meis viribus adjuvem in omnibus, quae ad Historiam naturalem pertinent, sed praesertim in nova Editione Systematis tui, cistellam alteram ad te mittere statuo una cum Lithophyllacio Lluidii et nova Historia fossilium a D[omino] Em[anuelo] da Costa nuper edita. Haec missa abibunt, quamprimum ante oculos habeo aliquid pignus tuae amicitiae.
Nuper mecum communicavit amicus meus Georgius Edwards Tabulam sculptam novae avis ex genere Tringarum. Ut credo non descriptam esse lineationem ejus ad te mitto sperans non ingratam fore.
Insecta mea marina certe non descripta est et a mure marina Dalei et ab aphrodita nitente vestra valde differt. Plura specimina expecto et, si cupis, unum spir[itu] vini asservatum tibi praesentabo. Ex insula Monae expecto, ex quo loco varias insectas marinas rarissimas accepi, et, si velis, catalogum, lineationem et descriptionem ad te mittam. Vale!
Downing in Flintshire England
August 28
th
1757.
[
Address
]
D
r
Linnaeus, Premier Medicin du Roy
et Chevalier de L'ordre Polaire
a Upsal en Sveden
[
Illustration
]
The grey Coot-footed Tringa [a] shot near Halifax in Yorkshire, January 1757. & presented to me by M
r
Thomas Bolton of Worly Clough. drawn from nature of the Bigness of Life by me
George Edwards.
[a]
Tringa
is the name given by Edwards to the red or grey
Phalaropus fulicarius
.
Notes
Letter from or to Linnaeus
Original location:
a. original holograph (Linnean Society, London, XI, 422-423).
Document type
Letter
Contact
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Location
Uppsala University Library
Carolina Rediviva, Dag Hammarskjölds väg 1
Box 510
SE 751 20 Uppsala
Linnaean correspondence
Identifiers (general)
urn:nbn:se:alvin:portal:record-226618
(nbn)
Identifiers (local)
L2220
(Linnébrev)
alvin-record:226618
(alvin)
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