1615820567000 1581951532000 Standard Record object-110005847 1747160954462 1740480322000 1747159409017 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-110005847 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110005847 e131197e-2e8d-363d-905b-6702562b37ed 6 content description Letters mostly to and from Sir Joseph Banks, dated 1773-1815, especially from Jonas Dryander, James Lind, Sir Charles Blagden. 'H' is spread across four boxes. The box H1-75 solely contains letters from Dryander to Banks. H1-75: Autograph letters of the botanist Jonas Dryander (1748-1810) to Sir Joseph Banks. The letters were written between 1 October 1782 until 18 October 1789. H76-H130 in a separate box. H76-103: Autograph letters from Dryandar to Banks. These letters are written from 25 October 1788 until 25 October 1797. H104-105: Autograph letters from George Bellas Greenough (1778-1855), President of the Geological Society, to Banks, with drafts of Banks' reply. The letters are dated 2 May 1809 and 18 February 1810. H106-107: Autograph letters from James Laird/Lind, MD, Secretary to the Geological Society. 107 includes printed notes from a Geological Society meeting. H108: Autograph letter from De Luc. H109-110: Autograph letters from James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, Scottish judge and philosopher. H11 MISSING H112-117: Autograph letters and notes from Banks to Major W. Price, Mr. Herschell, Dawson Turner, Monsieur Menk Consecler (?), Mr. Bentham. H118: Autograph letter from James Lind, 1736-1812, physician to the the royal household to Mr Maskelyne. H118A-130: Autograph letters from Lind to Banks. H119 sent from Cape Town. H131-185 in a separate box. H131-149: Autograph letters from Lind to Banks. H150-151 MISSING H152-185: Autograph letters from Sir Charles Blagden, 1748-1820, physician to Banks. These letters are dated from 26 August 1773 until 7 October 1783. H186-244 in a separate box. H186-H226: Autograph letters from Blagden to Banks, dated from 9 October 1783 until 18 December 1805. H227: Autograph letter from 'Wm. Bishop' to Banks. H228: Autograph letter from 'Fred'k Blumenbach'. H229: Autograph letter from Charles Alexander de Calonne, b. 1734, French stateman, to Banks. H230: Autograph letter from James Cross. H231: Autograph letter from George Cumberland. H232-33: Autograph letters from Erasmus Darwin to Banks. H234: Autograph letter from Darwin to (CHECK GUARDBOOK). H235-236: Autograph letter and note from Mrs M. Delany. H237 MISSING H238: Autograph letter from Mr Felton. H239 MISSING H240: Autograph letter from Mr Green of Trinity College to Banks, dated April 14 1776. H241: Autograph letter from Matthew Gregson. H242 MISSING H243: Petition for Matthew Gregson to become a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London with various signatures. Signatures include Joseph Brooks Yates (1780-1855), merchant and antiquary of Liverpool. 244: Autograph letter from C. F. Greville (check guard book). H246-302 in a separate box. H246-47: Autograph letters from Charles Hatchett to Banks. H248: Autograph note, 'Mr Hutton's compliments to Mr Banks + Dr Solander'. H249: Autograph letter from Th. Hennah to Banks. H250-251: MISSING H252-254: Autograph letters from Vincent Lunardi to Banks. H255-256: Autograph letters from James Mario Matra, midshipman with Captain Cook, to Banks. H257: Autograph letter from Arnold Mello to Banks. H258-259 MISSING H260: MS copy of a letter from William Munro to Dr Torrence, 9 June 1809, on having seen a mermaid. H261: MS copy of a letter from Elizabeth Mackay to Mrs Innes, about seeing a mermaid, dated 25 May 1809. H262 MISSING H263: Autograph letter from Dominic Trant to Banks, enclosing the affidavit of Edward Hussey, about seeing a mermaid. Dated 9 April 1783. H264: Autograph letter [SIGNATURE NOT DECIPHERABLE, CROSS-REFERENCE LIST OF AUTHORS). H265: Autograph note from Dr Pearce to Sir Joseph Banks. H266: Autograph note from 'The Bp. of D.' (Thomas Percy, 1729-1811, Bishop of Dromore). Refers to fossil bones found in 1783. H267: Autograph letter to Spencer Perceval from G. Rose, dated 26 February 1812, with draft reply by Perceval on reverse. H268: Autograph letter from J. Morrison to Banks(?), 16 November 1812. H269-270: Autograph letters from Percy to Banks, on the discovery of fossil bones. H271: Autograph letter from George Nicol to Banks(?), 22 September 1788. H272: Autograph letter from Purkis to Banks, dated 14 October 1798. H273-278: Autograph letters from Dr Richardson to Banks, dated from 8 February 1803 until 17 March 1805. H279: Autograph letter from Roger to Banks, dated 1 September 1803, on the capture of a French ship with large botanical collections, with a draft of Banks' reply at the end. H280 MISSING H281: Autograph letter from William Sheffield, Provost of Worcester College, to Banks(?), dated 5 February 1774. H282-286: Autograph letters from Charles Daniel Solander (1736-82), F.R.S. Botanist, to Joseph Banks, dated from 9 July 1773 until 20 September 1781. H287: Autograph letter from Charles Townley (1737-1805) to Banks. H288: Autograph letter from Dawson Turner (1775-1858), botanist and antiquary, to Banks, dated 3 February 1803. H289-290: Autograph letters from Walter Honeywood Yate to Banks. H290 includes draft of Banks' reply. H291: Autograph letter from Henry Ussher (d. 1790), astronomer, to Banks, dated 28 December 1785. H292: Autograph letter from Luke Young to Banks, dated 15 June 1802. H293: Autograph letter from Thomas Velley (1748?-1806), botanist, to Banks, dated 27 September 1790. Enclosing a printed amount of Roman antiquities at Bath, with further MS notes. H294: Autograph letter from Sir John Pringle (1707-1782), physician, to Banks. H295: Autograph letter from John Walsh (1725?-95) to Banks, dated 14-15 January H296: Typeset letter from Kurt Loewenfeld, collector of letters, possibly to S.G. Perceval, dated 14 January 1910. H297: Autograph letter from Clara Millard, bookseller, to Spencer G. Perceval, dated 25 February 1892. H298: Autograph letter from Henry Gray, antiquarian and topographical bookseller, dated 1881. H299 MISSING H300: Autograph MS extract from the Report of the Thirteenth Meeting of the British Association Atheneum by Charles William Peach (1800-1886), geologist, dated 26 August 1843. H301: Copy letter (extract) to Dr Buckland from William Baker, naturalist, dated 27 April 1843. H302: Autograph letter by anonymous possibly to S. G. Perceval, dated 18 January 1910. PERCEVAL/H 1 accession number PERCEVAL/H 110005847 priref 110005847 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110005847 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110005847 reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum 302 items Correspondence, misc. MSS, engravings, etc. object OBJECT