Letter. 1810.

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Letter. 1810.

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A.L.S. (1810 March 23, Norwich) to Dr. Sims concerning a review of Smith's work in the E̲d̲i̲n̲b̲u̲r̲g̲h̲ R̲e̲v̲i̲e̲w̲ and proposed scientific names, i.e., Conchium, Linnæus, and Linræan.

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Dibner, Bern.

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Sims, John, 1749-1831

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Smith, James Edward, 1759-1828

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José Francisco Correia da Serra (1750–1823, APS 1812) was an abbot, diplomat, scholar and botanist. In his work as a botanist he was particularly concerned with the systematic classification of vegetable species. Thomas Jefferson described him as “profoundly learned in several branches of science he was so above all others in that of Botany; in which he preferred an amalgamation of the methods of Linnaeus [1707-1778, APS 1769] and of Jussieu [1686-1758] to either of them exclusively...