A W Hertouch to Linnaeus [translation]

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A W Hertouch to Linnaeus [translation]

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Title: A W Hertouch to Linnaeus [translation]

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Repository: The Linnean Society of London

Collection: Smith Correspondence

Reference number: JES/AG/20

Archival level: Item

Creator name: Gurney, Anna (1795-1857)

Date: [c 1821-1825]

Extent: 3 pp

Language: en

Description: [Translation by Anna Gurney, not dated, references to posthumous publications of Peter Forsskål provide estimate of 1775 for date of original letter]Death of Professor [Peter] Forsskål [(1732-1763), Swedish naturalist and explorer]; sending his posthumous works "Flora aegyptiaco-arabica" and "Descriptiones animalium" to Linnaeus.

Sender: Gurney, Anna

Related material: Forsskål, P, (1775). "Flora Aegyptiaco-Arabica. Sive descriptiones plantarum, quas per Aegyptum inferiorem et Arabiam felicem detexit, illustravit ... Post mortem auctoris edidit Carsten Niebuhr. Accedit tabula Arabiae felicis geographico-botanica." Haunia: Moller.Forsskål, P, (1775). "Descriptiones animalium: avium, amphibiorum, piscium, insectorum, vermium; quae in itinere orientali observavit Petrus Forskal... post mortem auctoris edidit Carsten Niebuhr. Adjuncta est Materia Medica Kahirina..." Havnia: Moller.

Previous reference number: 157

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